Assistant Commissioner Pat Leahy said the target for local garda commanders should not be is crime up or down but “community safety”.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said Ireland must be wise to the possibility of British prime minister Boris Johnson calling a snap general election in the autumn.

There has been a four-fold increase in reported murder threats over the last six years, figures show, with the rise continuing this year.

Anyone who thinks that drug gangs are confined to Dublin and other major cities in Ireland need to think again. It is a nationwide scourge that forms a deadly triangle between Dublin and Drogheda on the east coast and Sligo in the West.

The assistant garda commissioner has pleaded with youths not to get involved in the drugs trade at any level. We must provide initiatives to help, writes Cormac O’Keeffe.

A Garda boss leading investigations into the murder of two young men has warned youths across the country that even low-level drug dealing “is enough” to get them killed.

Gardaí were confronted with a gruesome murder scene when they discovered a young man with his genitals mutilated at a rented house in south Dublin.

Update 10.20am: The Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors has said its members want to examine how any cuts to discretionary and administrative overtime will impact core policing services.

Garda Commissioner Drew Harris has said gardaí policing a property repossession on Tuesday “showed restraint” in the face of physical and verbal abuse, but said the way in which face-covering hoods were used by the Public Order Unit was “not correct”.

A specialist Garda hate crimes division should be set up to improve the reporting of offences and the quality of investigations, according to a submission to the Policing Commission.

The Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (GSOC)  has launched an investigation into the temporary loss of a Garda sub-machine gun and ammunition, citing reports of an “apparent lack of security” in the incident.

The State has a responsibility to send “a clear message” that hate crime will not be tolerated, the head of the country’s human rights agency has said.

A fresh Garda controversy is emerging concerning a nationwide problem of juvenile offenders involved in thousands of serious crimes “getting away with it”.

Some 29 people — 26 men and three women — were considered for the Garda Commissioner job.

Fine Gael have “little or no interest” in seeking a continuation of government with Independent Alliance “headbangers” after the next election, sources say.

Five candidates are in the running for the Garda commissioner job, the Irish Examiner understands.

Earlier this week, Assistant Commissioner Pat Leahy said 522 people had been warned by An Garda Síochána that their lives were in danger from criminals.

Gardaí in Dublin are dealing with more than 500 death threats.

An Garda Síochána is supporting the forthcoming supervised injecting centre not just because it’s Government policy but because it is the “right thing to do”, Dublin’s police chief says.

Gardaí in Dublin are dealing with 522 “live” threats to life, with 11 of them assessed as “critical”.

It is understood thieves who stole an 800 year old relic from Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin returned it because they thought it was cursed.

Up to a hundred more searches are expected to be conducted this year in relation to a major investigation into child abuse imagery, garda bosses have said.

An 800-year-old relic, stolen from Christ Church Cathedral, has been recovered by Gardaí.

Information on the number of applications for the post of Garda Commissioner is being kept under wraps.

The number of people who have applied to be Garda Commissioner is being kept under wraps.

Key players in the Kinahan crime cartel will be brought before the courts in the near future, Dublin’s top garda has said.

The pending reopening of Stepaside Garda station will be strongly criticised by the Dáil’s spending watchdog, despite two Cabinet ministers demanding its return.

The Government recouped just €3.2m from the sale of more than 40 Garda stations, a total described as “derisory”.

Department of Justice and Garda bosses have said overtime funding is available for December but gardaí confirmed a national ban on the practice has been in place since Tuesday and will run until Sunday.

As Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald yesterday confronted the strengthening possibility that she might become the second justice minister to lose a cabinet seat over one of the scandals that have so altered the perception of An Garda Síochána, another episode in our culture war played out in a Leinster House committee room when senior gardaí were guests of the Public Accounts Committee.

Transport Minister Shane Ross is facing fresh claims that he pulled a “political stroke” by ensuring Stepaside Garda Station was re-opened after a senior garda officer said the facility “would not have been my number one priority”.

Acting garda chief won’t seek top post.

Acting garda chief won’t seek top post

The senior leadership of An Garda Síochána meets this morning for what has been described as a crucial bid to “steady the ship”.

Gardaí have intervened in more than 30 potential murders since the Regency Hotel attack late last summer.

Every street in Dublin will be assigned their own Garda by the end of the year, according to Assistant Commissioner Pat Leahy.

The Policing Authority is implementing a key part in the reform of An Garda Síochána as it oversees the appointment of gardaí to key management positions.

I don’t think there’s a single article that has ever been written about a male politician in the same vein, writes Alison O’Connor.

It was a moment of joy in the worst of days for Preston Hutch. After following his father’s coffin the 300m or so from the front door of his grandmother’s house to the church, he released the birds on the steps of the chapel.

Two women and a man were arrested yesterday as gardaí close the net on those behind the spate of gangland murders in Dublin’s north inner city.

A Garda chief has said he is “absolutely confident” that investigations into four murders in his area will be successful.

Cork could become the waste processing capital of the world if a proposed incinerator for the harbour area was to become a reality, according to academics from University College Cork.