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.

A 43-year-old homeless man whose body was found among rubbish in a waste management depot in Dublin died due to suffocation.

A 27-year-old man was being questioned last night by gardaí investigating the murder of a woman who was attacked and stabbed while working in a shop in Kilkenny’s city centre.

A new generation of violent young criminals are among the suspects for a reckless gun attack outside a Dublin pub which left a drug boss with serious head wounds and three innocent bystanders with minor injuries.

A 30-year-old man was remanded in custody yesterday after he was charged with robbery in connection with a violent raid last weekend at a Spar shop in Dublin after which a staff member was hospitalised.