Gardaí have arrested two people and seized a firearm following the search of a vehicle on the M1 at Lusk, Co Dublin.

Because of the premature closure of St Patrick’s ‘prison’, violent young offenders are inadequately housed and are a danger to themselves and to care workers, says John Byrne 

A couple who brought High Court proceedings against Permanent TSB are to be repaid the €61,000 they were overcharged.

The Government says it has no plans to build a youth detention centre in Co Cork, despite pleas from public representatives who have highlighted the hardship being imposed on teenagers from the region who are being detained in Dublin.

Among those getting their Junior Certificate results yesterday were more than 100 students who sat their exams in prisons.

Ten staff members at a children’s detention centre have been on sick leave for more than a year, it has emerged.

Ten members of staff at a children’s detention centre have been on sick leave for more than a year, it has emerged.

THE parents of a baby, whose death at 10 days of age had initially been treated as murder, are to be advised a coroner was anxious to open inquest proceedings.

AFTER a career spanning 40 years which included involvement in the seizure of the gun-running ship Claudia, one of the naval service’s most experienced sailors has made his last voyage.

A Drogheda man has been given sentences totaling eight years for trying to rob a 72-year-old man in his home, three years after he was jailed for robbing the same man.

A Drogheda man is to be jailed for trying to rob a 72-year-old man in his home, three years after he was jailed for robbing the same man.

A High Court jury has awarded €8,500 in damages to a 22-year-old man who claimed he was struck in the face by a Garda he had insulted while in custody.

In the midst of the uproar over the Murphy Report on clerical paedophile abuse, it is disturbing to learn that warnings about other forms of child abuse will not be acted upon properly until 2012.

Plain clothes detectives foiled a €300,000 tiger-kidnapping tonight after a threatened bank worker dumped a bag of cash on railway lines.

A British national has been jailed for six years for transporting more than €600,000 of cocaine to Ireland in a lorry load of quilts.

PAYMENTS to GPs under the medical card scheme and other State subsidies more than trebled in the past decade, reaching a record €440 million last year.

PAYMENTS to GPs under the medical card scheme and other state subsidies more than trebled in the past decade, reaching a record €440 million last year.

An Irish soldier injured in a bomb blast in Afghanistan is recovering well, his father said today.

A JUDGE investigating the tragic death of Irish toddler Lucy Bennett is set to exonerate her parents of any blame.

An inquest into the deaths of two men killed during a foiled post office raid in Lusk, Co Dublin, two years ago will open today.

Gardaí today demanded more firearms training to deal with the increase in gun crime.

The Director of Public Prosecutions is examining a garda file over the the deaths of two raiders shot by armed detectives during a post office robbery, a coroner’s court heard today.

The DPP will not bring a criminal prosecution over a traffic accident in which a pensioner was knocked down by a garda patrol car, an inquest heard tonight.

IN the whimsical world of children, where deadlines and clock-in times are immaterial, Gillian O’Sullivan, 36, is blessed with an understanding boss and childminder.

The gardaí were justified in killing two post office raiders in Lusk, Co Dublin, last month, according to an opinion poll published this morning.

A man was today charged in connection with a foiled armed robbery in Dublin in which two men were shot dead by gardaí.

The Irish Postmasters' Union is calling for 24-hour security cameras to be installed in every post office in the country.

Amnesty International tonight called for an independent inquiry into the killing of two armed robbers in a quiet Irish village as Bertie Ahern backed the gardaí involved.

A truck driver found in possession of cocaine and cannabis worth almost €16m was jailed for five years today.

TWO men have appeared before Dublin District Court in relation to one of the country’s biggest ever seizures of cannabis, worth over €13m.