The civil service is struggling to recruit staff in a number of key areas because salaries are not keeping pace with jobs in the private sector.

Gardai confirmed last night that following reports of burglary and theft of vehicles, units were deployed in the Tallaght District resulting in nine arrests to date.

Here are all the latest headlines this lunchtime.

A man has been remanded in custody charged over a gun and ammunition seizure after gardaí stopped a car in Dublin at the weekend.

A man has been remanded in custody charged over a gun and ammunition seizure after gardai stopped a car in Dublin at the weekend.

It is being reported that Gardaí have arrested two members of the Kinahan cartel in Dublin this afternoon.

A Dublin-based Garda has gone on trial for harassing another officer through Facebook and the Garda Pulse system.

Four people have been arrested in connection with a brutal assault on a young man in Dublin last weekend.

A judge has ordered the arrest of screen actor Gerard McSorley after he failed to turn up to court today to face a breach of the peace charge.

A garda sergeant facing the sack for groping a female colleague at a Dublin garda station has been fined €2,000.

A Dublin-based Garda sergeant has escaped jail with a €1,000 fine for sexually assaulting a female garda in 2010.

A GARDA sergeant will face twoseparate trials next year over allegations that he sexually assaulted two female colleagues while on duty at a Dublin Garda station.

A Garda sergeant will face separate trials next year over allegations that he sexually assaulted two female colleagues while on duty at a Dublin Garda station.

A Garda sergeant has denied claims he sexually assaulted two female colleagues while on duty at a Dublin garda station last year.

A garda sergeant is to return to court next month having been charged earlier today with sexually assaulting two female colleagues.

A Dublin garda station has been evacuated after a suspicious device was found.

A youth who denies sexually assaulting a then 12-year-old girl at her home in 2009 will face trial in May.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has reserved judgment in the case of five Limerick men who want their appeal against their murder conviction to be dealt with by the Supreme Court.

ROY SHEAHAN (St Michael’s, Athy) will have the ideal opportunity to get his international career back on track when he guests for the Garda/Rylane selection against the New York Police Department in a sell-out dinner show at the Rochestown Park Hotel, Cork on Saturday night.

Sentencing of a 16-year-old boy, who was part of a Traveller feud-related riot which erupted outside a Dublin garda station last October, has been adjourned until June.

A Dublin garda station under renovation is allowing local youths to spray graffiti around its construction site.

Gardaí are investigating a break-in at Harcourt Street Garda Station in Dublin last night.

The Government has received documentation from the Colombian authorities relating to three Irishmen convicted of training left wing rebels in the south American country, it emerged tonight.

Gardaí are expected to travel to Colombia as part of their investigation into three Irishmen convicted of training rebels there, it emerged tonight.

JUSTICE Minister Michael McDowell yesterday welcomed the 3% drop in crime for the first nine months this year and promised continuing resources for convicting criminals.

The manageress of a lapdancing club was ordered to surrender her passport after being accused of not filing tax returns.

A SENIOR detective is to investigate the case of a teenager who died just hours after being arrested for public order offences.

A man is being questioned at a Dublin garda station today in connection with an overnight drugs seizure in the city.

Gardai in Rathcoole in Dublin had a surprise visitor last night when a heavily pregnant woman gave birth in the station.

Gardai say they have now identified the man who shot himself inside a Dublin garda station last evening, but will not be releasing his name.

Daniel O’Toole of Cashel Avenue, Crumlin in Dublin has been sentenced to 15 years for the arson of a Dublin Garda station, during which Sergeant Andrew Callinan died.

Gardai have detained a woman at an address in Dublin and uncovered bomb-making components in a sweep against dissident republican paramilitary group activities.

A legal problem over the unlawful detention of a 15-year-old boy at a Dublin garda station at the weekend is expected to be resolved shortly.

The office of the Attorney General is to be questioned today over what it intends to do with a 15-year-old boy who was unlawfully detained in a Dublin Garda station for two nights this week.