Five men are being questioned after a suspected dissident republican bomb plot was foiled near the border.

Gardaí have arrested five men and seized a suspected bomb during an operation near the border in County Louth.

Three people have been arrested as part of a joint Garda / PSNI investigation into dissident republican activity.

Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan has insisted a paramilitary display will not be allowed at the funeral of dissident IRA figure Seamus McKenna.

Six men have been arrested in connection with two separate attempted raids on post offices.

Former Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan has lost two more teeth after falling over a wall in Limerick, Ireland.

OIL laundering plants seized last year by customs were capable of producing up to 30 million litres of fuel per year.

Gardai have released the name of the elderly woman who died in a house fire in Co Louth yesterday afternoon.

An 86-year-old woman has died in a house fire in north Co Louth.

A HIGHLY-SOPHISTICATED, fully-mechanised oil laundering plant raided by customs officers yesterday was a potential gold mine that could have netted its criminal operators 50,000 a day in profits.

Customs officers in Co Louth have raided an illegal diesel-laundering plant in the Kilcurry area north of Dundalk.

Customs officers have seized a major oil laundering plant near the border this morning, which was costing the exchequer millions of euro per annum.