Dublin Zoo has confirmed it has fallen victim to a cyber-scam that reportedly resulted in the theft of up to €500,000.

A major revamp of the Garda Síochána's security and firearms operations was instituted yesterday.

A 24-hour dedicated phoneline for the reporting of child sexual abuse, both current and historic, is being launched today.

Government is pressing ahead with construction of an €80m Garda headquarters. It is part of an ambitious, nationwide plan to build and refurbish Garda stations.

Gardaí may have to move out of their central Dublin headquarters building if agreement cannot be reached over lease arrangements with a private company which bought the property, the Commercial Court has heard.

Publicly quoted property investment fund Hibernia REIT is targeting a 50% increase in total rent roll over the next two years, which would lift its rental income from nearly €40m to €60m.

Over €86.7m will be spent by the Office of Public Works (OPW) on leasing buildings which house government departments and other State agencies this year.

Hibernia REIT is to lodge a planning application that could see the Garda regional headquarters, on Dublin’s Harcourt Square, replaced by up to 300,000sq ft of prime office development.

A grandmother has been spared jail for lying to GSOC after she posted a lewd Valentine’s card containing a G-string and a bullet to a detective in the Garda "cold case" unit.

Phone records show a Dublin woman was in contact with a detective garda when she allegedly posted a Valentines card containing a g-string and a bullet to one of the officer’s colleagues, a court has heard.

The first thing Ann McNamara needs to know about a crime is not what has happened, but where it has happened.

The state-of-the-art Garda recording system had the capability to record more than 300 phone lines all day, every day, over a six-year period.

The Special Criminal Court has ruled that the trial of two men for IRA membership can proceed after hearing evidence that there are no recording facilities at Clonmel and Cahir Garda stations where the men were detained after arrest.

A man who admitted his part in a surveillance operation on the Dublin headquarters of a number of specialist Garda units has been acquitted of IRA membership by the Special Criminal Court.

A man charged in connection with an alleged surveillance operation on the Dublin headquarters of a number of specialist Garda units has admitted taking photos of the complex after renting a room in an overlooking hotel.

Gardaí busted a major cocaine factory as part of a nationwide sting involving 419 planned searches and 89 arrests for a range of crimes.

Lawyers for a man charged in connection with an alleged surveillance operation on the Dublin headquarters of a number of specialist garda units are seeking the disclosure of more evidence before a date for trial can be set, the Special Criminal Court has heard.

The Garda Cold Case Unit has launched a review of the investigation into the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier.

A chronic alcoholic with 64 convictions has being given a suspended sentence after admitting calling in hoax bomb scares on his ex-girlfriend’s house.

A chronic alcoholic is to be sentenced for calling in multiple hoax bomb scares on his ex-girlfriend’s house.

A man charged in connection with an alleged surveillance operation on the Dublin headquarters of a number of specialist garda units has been granted bail at the Special Criminal Court.

The former head of the Irish Republic’s forensic state laboratory has said he is surprised no-one was ever prosecuted for the IRA killing of 18 British soldiers.

A chronic alcoholic with 64 convictions has been given “one more chance” after he was caught calling in multiple hoax bomb scares on his ex-girlfriend’s house.

A man has this evening been charged in connection with an alleged surveillance operation on the Dublin headquarters of a number of specialist garda units.

Gardaí are due to bring separate charges shortly against dissident republicans involved in a spying operation on anti-terrorism officers, and over attempts to kill a crime boss.

Two dissident republicans are being questioned after surveillance equipment was seized in a hotel room overlooking Dublin’s garda headquarters.

Gardaí in Dublin yesterday seized heroin with a street value of €1.1m and arrested two men.

Eight guns were seized today after a member of the public spotted the weapons on open ground.

Four people aged in their twenties and thirties remain in Garda custody this morning after a loaded gun was seized in west Dublin.

A TOTAL of 22 Garda inspectors, including three women, have been promoted to the rank of superintendent and assigned to new stations.

A Dublin man accused of murder told gardaí he was with a married woman on the night of the alleged murder the Central Criminal Court heard today.

A 25-year-old father of one, who pleaded guilty to having firearms and ammunition was jailed for three and a half years by the Special Criminal Court today.

A NEW generation of violent young criminals has sparked a second gang war in an area already blighted by a deadly feud.

A former civil servant who downloaded child pornographic images described as "amongst the worst that have ever come before the courts" has been given a two-year suspended sentence.

The trial of four men arrested during a Garda operation into suspected dissident activity in Donegal last March has heard that images of “men in balaclavas, camouflaged jackets and holding an AK47” were found during a search of a Transit van.

A Northern Ireland man arrested as part of a Garda Special Branch investigation into INLA activity in Dublin has had his bail application adjourned for a third time as the defence was not ready to proceed.

A man from the North, arrested as part of a Garda Special Branch investigation into INLA activity in Dublin, was charged at a special sitting of the Special Criminal Court tonight with membership of the terrorist organisation.

A young Dublin man was "slapped in the face" by the man he is accused of murdering, the Central Criminal Court heard today.

A hundred gardaí took part in the Paris Marathon today to raise money for the charity Goal.

Around 100 gardaí will take off for France today to compete in the Paris Marathon in aid of Goal.

Three men charged with INLA membership were granted bail at the Special Criminal Court today.

Gardaí were today investigating what has been described as an embarrassing security breach at a building adjoining one of its most sensitive operational centres.

Gardaí have announced details of this year’s Operation Free Flow, an annual operation to improve the free flow of traffic in and out of Dublin city centre in the run up to Christmas, which started at 6am this morning.