Departing directors at the oil firm, Tedcastle Group, shared termination payments of €1.2m last year.

Revenue officers have seized machinery and materials associated with illicit cigarette manufacturing following a search.

A lorry driver wanted in connection with the discovery of 39 bodies in a refrigerated container in Essex has been granted permission to appeal against his extradition to the UK.

Getting hacks out of their beds at 4am to cover a Fine Gael campaign event at Dublin Port will never win you favours among the media.

The Taoiseach has ramped up his efforts to make Brexit the key election issue and said that should the public elect Fianna Fail to office they will be getting an “untried and untested team”.

EU Commissioner Phil Hogan should stay out of the election and his former party Fine Gael is “politicising” Brexit, Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin has claimed.

Ireland is facing a fresh Brexit cliff edge with the UK formally leaving the European Union tomorrow night at 11pm, Tánaiste Simon Coveney has warned.

Tánaiste Simon Coveney has warned that Ireland's frictionless trade with the UK will end on December 31, and the country is facing a cliff-edge fall into tariff-laden trade.

The High Court has approved the extradition of Irishman Eamon Harrison to the UK to face manslaughter charges.

State papers show a senior official has sought an undertaking from Mr Goodman as the chief executive of AIBP in January 1989 that there would be no further false declarations as well as an explanation for such breaches.

DSPCA CEO Brian Gillen said: "This seizure flies in the face of the illusion being created by IGB that animal welfare is being taken seriously."

The Criminal Assets Bureau has seized a range of high-value assets from a cross border group believed to be linked to the Essex smuggling deaths of 39 people.

It came as part of an investigation into a group suspected of being involved in various international smuggling activities.

The seized alcohol was worth more than €1.4m.

Protesters wearing shorts and bikinis have protested in the rain outside the Dáil to highlight their opposition to Leo Varadkar's comments on climate change.

Maurice Robinson, 25, who is known as Mo, was remanded in custody by magistrates in Chelmsford on Monday after appearing before them via video link.

Essex Police are investigating lines of inquiry to “establish whether there is a wider conspiracy involved” in the deaths of 39 people found in a lorry in Essex.

These seizures are part of Revenue's ongoing operations targeting the supply and sale of illegal tobacco products in the so-called 'shadow' economy.

A man has been arrested after a drugs seizure in Co Clare.

Teams are trying to figure out what type of whale it is, after it was first noticed by walkers at Sutton Beach on Tuesday.

Ireland is facing into “extreme chaos” this month as Rosslare Europort will not be fully Brexit-ready until January 2021 at the earliest, it can be revealed.

The man has been brought to the Mater Hospital for treatment.

The tobacco, weighing 1.4 tonnes, had a retail value of over €815,000, according to a Revenue spokesperson who said that it represented a loss to the Exchequer of approximately €721,000.

The Criminal Assets Bureau has seized a luxurious Range Rover off one of the country's top heroin bosses.

A North-only backstop will be one of solutions discussed between Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and British prime minister Boris Johnson today in fresh attempts to break the Brexit deadlock.

Revenue officers have been granted a three-month cash detention order at Dublin District Court today.

The drugs were found when gardaí searched a house in Gort earlier today.

€79,110 was seized following routine examinations of vehicles travelling to France.

The Brexit crisis could be cooled somewhat if the EU and UK were to immediately extend a transit or connectivity accord beyond its expiry date at the end of December, the head of the Irish hauliers business group has said.

A son of a man who died in a workplace accident at Dublin Port has said his family were “speechless” after hundreds of truck drivers formed a guard of honour at his funeral following an emotional appeal.

Father-of-four Nicholas ‘Nicky’ Collier, a truck driver from Swords and Raheny died on Wednesday when struck by an empty handler according to his son Darragh.