Garda anti-gang units have delivered a blow to one of the country’s biggest drug traffickers

A man has been arrested following a drug seizure in Ballyfermot in Dublin.

Officers from the Garda Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau, supported by the Special Crime Task Force, swooped on two vehicles on the Naas Road in south Dublin on Tuesday.

Over €100,000 has been seized and three people have been arrested after gardaí intercepted two cars in Dublin yesterday.

Update Saturday, February 15: Ryan McGuinness has been found safe and well.

There have been demands for increased garda resources to combat anti-social behaviour along Dublin's Grand Canal after a scrambler bike struck a young woman, inflicting serious injuries.

Cannabis resin, cocaine, MDMA and Heroin with an estimated street value of €758,000 were found during searches of a number of houses yesterday.

Dublin City Council made use of unmanned drones to monitor predominantly working class areas of the capital ahead of the Halloween bonfire season, it has emerged.

A man in his early thirties died this morning in a single vehicle collision in Dublin.

Dean Howe, 34, with an address at Oakfield, Dublin 8, was charged with conspiring with others to murder Mr Hanley at a location within the State between September 15 and November 6, 2017.

A father of four who was caught after a schoolgirl put a video up on Snapchat of him masturbating in front of her has received a fully suspended prison sentence.

Research and accounts by five gardaí show criminal networks are becoming embedded in society and normalised due to fear, writes Security Correspondent Cormac O’Keeffe.

A court has heard a would-be assassin complaining about how taking cocaine was negating the effect of his Viagra and making him “paranoid”, in a recording secretly captured by gardai.

Darren Cusack, from Crumlin, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to possession of the drugs for sale or supply at Ballyfermot Drive, Ballyfermot on July 17, 2017.

Two Opposition TDs have gone to the High Court to see an injunction against Ceann Comhairle Sean O Fearghail over his decision to disallow a new bill due to be debated in the Dáil today.

A father-of-three who crashed his car into a bollard following a chase and was later found hiding in an attic has been jailed for 18 months.

Former Minister for Justice Senator Michael McDowell has called on the Minister for Housing Eoghan Murphy to investigate any role played by his department in the payment of “protection money” on social housing building sites.

Demands have been made to clarify who knew what, and when, as concerns were raised over a potential unofficial policy to pay off criminals to ensure housing construction sites were not attacked.

The Garda National Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau found the heroin and cocaine during two raids in Clondalkin and Ballyfermot.

The heroin and cocaine was recovered during two searches in the Clondalkin and Ballyfermot areas.

Detectives investigating Wednesday’s gangland-style shooting in west Dublin had to carry out early arrests of four suspects after gardaí in Co Kildare caught them burning out a suspected fourth getaway car that night.