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.

Two people have been arrested in relation to a drugs seizure in Dublin yesterday.

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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 housing estate was blocked with burning cars, a car was driven onto a bonfire and fire fighters came under attack during a series of Halloween call-outs in Dublin last night.

The Dublin Fire Brigade is responding to reports of two derelict houses set alight this evening in Cherry Orchard and Tallaght.

Conor McGregor is due to appear in court this morning in connection with an alleged assault in Dublin earlier this year.

Three men have been arrested after gardaí investigating a car theft intercepted a car on the M50.

A convicted killer has been released from custody after a warrant seeking his extradition to the Netherlands was found to be invalid by the High Court in Dublin.

Gardaí are appealing for help to find a 40-year-old man who is missing from the Kilworth Road area of Drimnagh in Dublin 12 since Sunday.

Patrick Bergin is back in Cork with an almost- forgotten play he discovered by the brother of one of the 1916 leaders, writes Esther McCarthy.

The reality of knife crime and arranged fights between gangs of teens is laid bare in this Garda photograph.

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A Dublin man accused of possessing almost €3m worth of drugs and an assault rifle told Gardaí that he and his brother, who was caught with 15 firearms and thousands of rounds of ammunition, lived "separate lives" and were like "chalk and cheese".

A 25-year-old man is due in court today charged in connection with a drugs raid in Dublin over the weekend.

A man found dead in a hospital should not have been left to die in an emergency department waiting room, his family said yesterday.

Two funerals took place in Ireland yesterday, each getting public attention but for very different reasons.

Slawomir Gierlowski (33) of Galtymore Road, Drimnagh, Dublin denies attacking the women on dates in 2011, 2015 and 2016 at locations around Clondalkin in south Dublin.

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The accused man said: “I'm fed up with this. I've said I know nothing about it.”

A garda has described how a suspect in a late night sexual assault “zig-zagged” to avoid street lighting while he ran away from the scene.

A Dublin man has gone on trial accused of carrying out three attacks on women over a five-year period.

A presumed homeless man staying in a hotel at the expense of the State was found with €12,000 in cash and a further €140,000 in a bank account when he was targeted in a planned operation by the Criminal Assets Bureau.

It’s the time of year when a no-longer-young man’s heart turns to writing a column about trying to take up running again, writes Colm O’Regan.

The Criminal Assets Bureau has conducted searches targeting the purchase of properties by an associate of the Kinahan crime cartel.

Three cars worth €100k, 20 watches worth €200k, and €28,500 cash seized from drug dealing brothers.

A young mother who sued after she claimed she tripped on broken concrete outside shops in a Dublin suburb has settled her High Court action.

A 67-year-old man has died in a house fire in Dublin.

Legal aid has been refused for six individuals allegedly linked to the Kinahan crime gang in cases involving the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB).

Applications brought by six people allegedly linked to the Kinahan crime organisation to have their legal costs covered by the State in proceedings against the Criminal Assets Bureau have been dismissed by the High Court.

The High Court has been asked to approve legal aid to six individuals who want to oppose claims by CAB that certain assets seized by the Bureau as part of its investigation into the Kinahan crime cartel are the proceeds of crime.

Garda armed units are on high alert after the Hutch gang exacted revenge on the Kinahan cartel by shooting dead a low ranking member.

A teacher who was injured in a collision between his unlit electric bicycle and a car has lost his High Court action for damages, writes Ann O'Loughlin.

The dedicated Armed Support Unit for Dublin has dealt with 248 serious incidents in a three-month period, it emerged yesterday.

A Dublin youth, who stole a car from a petrol station, has been given a six-month sentence after his parents begged for him to sent to a detention centre.

After being to Hollywood and back, Patrick Bergin is happy to be playing a detective in his hometown for the current series of Red Rock, writes Esther McCarthy.

Dutch police are examining if CCTV cameras may have captured a botched murder attempt by a four-man British-Irish gang in one of Amsterdam’s most popular public squares.

Gardaí have charged a 27-year-old man in connection with the seizure of heroin in Crumlin yesterday.

Two Irishmen, including a senior member of the Kinahan cartel, are among four people being questioned after a suspected botched murder attempt at one of Amsterdam’s busiest squares.

Gardaí are braced for a backlash from the Hutch gang against the Kinahan cartel amid intelligence of a death threat against a senior cartel figure.

Footage has emerged of what is believed to be a suspect in the killing of Trevor O’Neill, the innocent man shot in Majorca last summer.

Pope Francis has named 17 new cardinals from around the world, including one with close links to Ireland.