Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan has sought a report from the Garda Commissioner in relation to the circumstances surrounding a fatal road collision in Co Monaghan, in which a garda was also seriously injured.

A man in Britain arrested on suspicion of murdering a teenage babysitter who was stabbed to death as she looked after her young niece and nephew on St Stephen's Day will today face a fresh round of questioning from detectives.

Two young men were killed in car crash by a motorist who drove “like a bat out of hell” on the wrong side of the road after having six bottles and five cans of beer at home followed by seven pints, two vodkas, three shots and a line of cocaine in a pub.

Petrol bombers attacked the wrong house in an early morning attack in the North.

Police in the North were today trying to track down three youths after a petrol bomb was thrown into a house.