Gardaí in County Leitrim have arrested a 49-year-old man as part of a €4m investment fraud and related money laundering investigation.

Two men are being detained following the discovery of cannabis plants with an estimated street value of almost half a million euro, following separate searches in Co Leitrim.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last night strongly condemned the murder of prison officer David Black, as it emerged that a third man had been arrested in connection with his death.

A man and a woman are being questioned by gardaí in relation to a drugs seizure in Co Leitrim.

A Lithuanian is alleged to have broken into a house in his home country in 2001 and to have stabbed a woman in the hand, the High Court heard today.

A 27-year-old man has been arrested in County Leitrim in connection with a ambush on police in the North.

A long-serving garda has been arrested in connection with a major investigation into the illegal trafficking of underage African women into Ireland for the sex industry.