Gardaí yesterday arrested a further five people as part of an operation targeting fraudulent motor insurance claims.

Gardaí investigating last week’s cash robbery on a woman in her own home, say three raiders also stole the family’s 4x4.

A woman died early yesterday following injuries she received in a car crash in Co Cork.

More than 800 cannabis plants with an estimated street value of €640,000 were seized by gardaí following a search of a warehouse in Rathcormac, Co Cork, yesterday.

Five men have been arrested following a drug seizure in County Cork.

Gardaí raided a cannabis factory yesterday in East Cork and seized up to €35,000 worth of drugs and equipment.

Former Fianna Fáil TD Ned O’Keeffe has been arrested today in connection with suspected fraud offences.

Gardaí have arrested three men after discovering a cannabis cultivation operation in Youghal, Co Cork last night.

GARDAÍ have appealed for a missing prison officer to contact his family and let them know he is safe and well.

Gardaí are today searching for 51-year-old John Gilmore, who is missing from his home at Westbeach, Cobh, Co Cork.

GARDAÍ believe they have severely dented the operations of a significant drug gang following the seizure of over €600,000 worth of cannabis and cocaine in Cork.

GARDAÍ have up to five days to question two men arrested in connection with the gangland-style killing of a Cork drug dealer.

GARDAÍ investigating the brutal gangland-style shooting of a man in Cork last August have identified the murder weapon.

AS the hunt for two armed raiders who botched a bank robbery in Cork last Friday intensifies, gardaí believe they now know the getaway route taken by the men after they fled empty-handed.

GARDAÍ are investigating an arson attack on a bus museum which is believed to have caused more than €100,000 worth of damage to vintage vehicles.

THIRSTY thieves crossed a railway line and several hundred yards of rough terrain in pitch darkness yesterday morning to steal 35 kegs of lager and stout from a Diageo compound in Co Cork.

A POSTMAN was jailed for four months yesterday for dumping over 10,000 letters over a six-month period as the judge said people were depending on him and he let them down.

GARDAÍ are searching for a middle-aged man who tried to lure a seven-year-old girl into his car after claiming he’d been sent to pick her up from school.

A MAN in his 20s was being questioned last night following the seizure of about €150,000 worth of cannabis in Co Cork.

Three men have been arrested in connection with a heroin seizure in Cork city.

GARDAÍ are searching for a man who carried out a serious sexual assault on a woman while she was on her way home from a night out.

A JUDGE yesterday described a former Department of Defence engineer as “a neighbour from hell” and denied his appeal against a garda refusal to grant him a firearms licence.

GARDAÍ believe that €200,000 worth of spirits stolen from a Co Cork warehouse are likely to be sold on the Christmas drinks market.

A 46-year-old man has been killed in a crash in Co Cork, gardaí confirmed last night.

THE Lithuanian Consul in Ireland has appealed to his fellow countrymen living in Cork to help gardaí trace a missing 33-year-old man who may have been murdered.

GARDAÍ are keeping an open mind on their investigation into the death of Sheola Keaney, whose body was found dumped in a laneway in Cobh, Co Cork on Sunday night.

Gardaí in Cork have arrested a man in his thirties following a €25,000 drug seizure.

I APPLAUD the OPW for removing the sectarian symbol from a State office i.e. the sacred heart picture from the Cóbh garda station public office.

I read with scarcely little incredulity, the report of Pat Brosnan (Irish Examiner, July 12) concerning the situation at the new Cóbh garda station, where a picture of the Sacred Heart was ordered to be removed by the OPW , for fear of causing offence to the "multi-cultural community" (sic).

THE Office of Public Works seems to have embarked on a crusade of political correctness which, to date, has put the Sacred Heart across the gardaí in at least one station.