Gardaí are seeking the public's help in tracing 41-year-old Michelle Walker from Edenmore Avenue, Raheny in Dublin who's been missing since Friday.

Hundreds of passengers had to be diverted mid- flight over Ireland to allow a Garda helicopter to chase armed robbers yesterday.

A second man has appeared in court following an armed raid at a credit union in Portmarnock in Dublin last Friday evening.

A brother of murdered dissident republican Alan Ryan and another man have been charged with firearms offensives as part of a garda investigation in to the murder of Dublin man Michael Kelly in 2011.

A 17-year-old girl, who attacked six gardaí with kicks, spits and a head butt, has been released on supervised probation six months and must get anger management counselling.

GARDAÍ are tracking down associates of a slain criminal as part of their investigation into the murder of drug dealer Tommy Joyce on Wednesday.

A man in his twenties is in a critical condition in hospital after he was shot in Dublin last night.

Gardaí who saw the body of a man, whose nephew is on trial in the Central Criminal Court for his murder, described the scene as "horrific".

ONE of the country’s top drug traffickers was arrested yesterday in connection with the murder of Latvian mother Baiba Saulite.

Gardaí investigating the murder of Latvian woman Baiba Saulite have arrested two men.

A 21-year-old man is being held by gardaí in connection with the murder of Donna Cleary, who was fatally injured when a house in which she was attending a birthday party was fired on in Coolock, in North Dublin, last weekend.

Gardaí are continuing to question two men in relation to one of the country's biggest drugs hauls of the year.

Gardai today seized €2m worth of ecstasy in north Dublin.

A Dublin taxi driver is in a serious condition in hospital after he was assaulted outside a public house in the early hours of the morning.