A man with 424 previous convictions was ordered by a judge to go back and mop the cell he was staying in after he had urinated in it.

The Garda Síochána “failed in its duty” in not investigating two historical cases of child sexual abuse, subsequently the subject of the Cloyne report, the Garda Ombudsman has found.

Gardaí in two Co Cork stations have been urged to walk out in protest against their Dickensian working conditions and the continued broken promises they endure from the Department of Justice and OPW to rectify the situation.

Gardaí in County Cork are trying to locate an 11-year-old girl who has been missing since last Friday.