The Disclosure Tribunal got straight down to business yesterday at 10.06am.

That Ross’s proposed change (re drink driving) is not embraced by the whole body politic is an acute embarrassment to any country which describes itself as civilised, writes Michael Clifford

Hate crimes are being reported at a rate of almost one every day, official figures have revealed.

An appropriately breezy day marked the official launch of the Beaufort Cup and Volvo Cork Week yesterday on board the LE Róisín off Cobh and close to the racecourse area for July’s biennial spectacle.

A gay Taoiseach would be no big deal with many in Fine Gael. But a candid leader who tells it like it is might still be beyond their comprehension, writes Michael Clifford

Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin has urged local communities to do more to combat human trafficking in Ireland.

The Garda Commissioner has refused to give a judge an undertaking to spare an officer from facing internal disciplinary proceedings after a court found him guilty of theft.

Delegates representing rank and file gardaí will demand they have a voice at future negotiations on pay.

The Government has moved to ease fears of a resource crisis in An Garda Síochána in the wake of station closures by ordering 170 vehicles for the force.

The Government has moved to fill 33 senior Garda posts which have been vacant since last year.

The new network of speed cameras will record more than 750 hours of driving before the end of the month, it emerged tonight.

Men are twice as likely as women to be employed in senior and middle management roles, new research revealed today.

The Central Statistics Office says average weekly earnings in all areas of the public sector excluding the health service increased by 3.2% in the 12 months up to June of this year.

THE FAI is confident the association’s bid to host the 2011 UEFA Cup final will succeed.

The new Garda Commissioner, Fachtna Murphy, is beginning his first day in the job today.

Controversy over the Shell gas pipeline in Co Mayo has eroded trust in An Garda Síochána while threatening the culture and values of the area, an international investigation has found.

A Garda Detective Sergeant who helped foil a string of Real IRA terror attacks in the mid-1990s is to stand trial tomorrow for illegal possession of a gun.

A playwright and arts administrator has been jailed for 16 years by Mr Justice Henry Abbott for raping a woman following a drugs and alcohol party in his Drogheda flat.

A series of searches are being carried out today by detectives investigating cross-border crime.

THERE was a large turnout yesterday at the first ever open day in An Garda Síochána for ethnic minorities.

The jury has been discharged in the trial of a former national sales manager for Advance Tyres charged with conspiring to defraud the State over a contract to supply tyres to An Garda Siochana.

A disgraced Superintendent who orchestrated fake IRA explosive dumps across county Donegal was today sacked from An Garda Siochana.

Hoax IRA arms dumps, corrupt senior gardaí, and claims of harassment have already rocked An Garda Siochana yet tomorrow sees the start of another two years of inquiry.

Without Childline the sexual abuse of a young Sligo girl would never have come to light, Mr Justice Paul Butler said at the Central Criminal Court when he jailed her father for four years.

Fine Gael has called on the Government to ensure that the proposed new traffic corps will be part of An Garda Siochana.