As many as one in five drivers are evading fines because of weaknesses in the fixed-penalty system, an investigation has found.

Three men whose attempts to rob a post office were foiled by gardai following a six week long investigation have been jailed for a total of ten and a half years.

50 years ago, gardaí protested against an unfair pay deal in an action that resonates to this day, writes Austin Kenny

A FORMER garda faces up to 10 years in prison for stealing thousands of euro from his colleagues and an 82-year-old woman.

A teenager is being treated in hospital in Dublin this morning after a serious assault in the capital last night.

A Cork garda has admitted at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to stealing nearly €2,000 from a woman.

THE last time Gemma Dwyer was robbed was the worst.

Gardaí in Dublin are appealing for witnesses after a taxi man was attacked on the North Strand Road.

INDUSTRIAL saws, cameras, trumpets, flutes, laptops and golf clubs are just some of the lost and stolen items the gardaí are putting online as part of a new scheme.

A man who absconded to Britain in 1998 after he severed one man’s ear and bit another man in the face more than 10 years ago has been given a four-year suspended sentence.

Four Glentoran football supporters arrested when violence broke out at a Setanta Cup clash with Bohemians in Dublin on Saturday were let off with warnings today.

Gardaí have renewed their appeal for the public's help in finding a 16-year-old girl who has been missing since last month.

A man is fighting for his life tonight after being stabbed in Dublin city centre.

Gardaí in Dublin are appealing for witnesses to a serious assault which has left a young woman in a critical condition in hospital.

A three-foot snake could be slithering around the streets of Dublin today after it vanished in a house burglary.

TAOISEACH Brian Cowen has dismissed as a “juvenile conspiracy theory” claims he was protecting the golden circle of 10 investors who were given e300m by Anglo to buy bank shares.

A troubled 16-year-old boy repeatedly threatened during his Children’s Court case today that he would kill himself if he was remanded in custody.

A 16-year-old boy, who was unable to resist the temptation to re-offend, was today detained for eight months on his 50th criminal conviction.

WHEN Pat Kelly emerges from the Hogan Stand tunnel on Monday, it will be the first time he has felt the HQ turf under his studs since September 2004 when his first All-Ireland experience was spoiled by Colm Cooper.

A building in Dublin City Centre will be demolished this afternoon.

A teenager who took part in a burglary of the offices of the Department of the Environment, in the Custom House in Dublin, has been remanded on bail pending sentence.

CITY councils are facing clean-up bills topping €1 million after fire services responded to thousands of emergencies over Hallowe’en.

Gardaí in Dublin are renewing their appeal for witnesses to a shooting incident in Ballybough yesterday.

GARDAÍ are investigating if a gangland shooting in Dublin’s north inner city is linked with any of the feuds operating in the area.

TICKETS for this weekend’s games in Croke Park are on sale through the GAA website www.gaa.ie and Ticketmaster outlets nationwide.

A Dublin teenager, who became the first person in the State to be charged with a newly designated offence for smuggling drugs into a prison, has been given a one-year sentence.

Gardaí investigating the murder of a man on a Dublin street during rush-hour traffic today appealed for witnesses to come forward.

Gardaí appealed for information today after a man was left in a serious condition in hospital following an attack.

A 17-year-old boy arrested for looting during the riots which erupted at the “Love Ulster” rally in Dublin in February walked free from court today after the prosecution was withdrawn.

EMBARRASSED gardaí have been put on the case of a mystery disappearance after over €40,000 in cash vanished from their own protective custody.

Up to €40,000 seized in a drugs raids has disappeared from a garda station, it was confirmed tonight.

A SUSPECT in the murder of a young man in a Dublin hotel in the early hours of New Year’s Day was arrested last night.

Ten new garda liaison officers have been appointed to look after the gay community in Dublin, it was announced today.

Gardaí in Dublin are appealing for information in tracing the whereabouts of a 14-year-old girl who has been missing for over a week.

Gardaí have arrested two men in connection with yesterday's gangland-style execution in Dublin's north inner city.

A murder inquiry has been launched after a woman was found stabbed to death at her flat in Dublin last night.

ALL of a sudden, the switch has been turned on in Dublin’s criminal underworld.

Crimestoppers is offering a €10,000 cash reward to anyone who can help gardaí identify the man, or the killers of the man, whose dismembered body was found in Dublin’s Royal Canal last week.

DETECTIVES investigating the murder of a young man will trawl through CCTV footage in the hope that those who dumped the body were captured on camera.

THE man who discovered dismembered human remains in a Dublin canal has described how he was alerted by a group of youngsters who thought there was a dummy in the water.

GARDAÍ said yesterday that a man whose dismembered remains were discovered in a canal may have been the victim of a ritual killing.

THE discovery of a body that appears to have been carefully cut up, wrapped in material, then transported to the Royal Canal to be dumped reveals a new level of underworld brutality.

Gardaí investigating the fatal stabbing of a Lithuanian in Dublin seven days ago were today trying to trace two taxi drivers who could help provide vital information.

A 14-year-old girl is missing in Dublin.