SOMETIMES at the Charleton Tribunal, there is a surreal feel to what is emerging. This was the case yesterday when details of hopeless incompetence in the child and family agency Tusla were heard in relation to a disturbing garda meeting on what to do about Maurice McCabe.

Two men armed with a hammer and a bar threatened staff and stole cash from a supermarket in Co Westmeath last night.

A woman has died after a three-vehicle road accident in Co Westmeath this afternoon.

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Gardaí have seized heroin worth €45,000 and arrested one man as part of an operation in Westmeath.

A woman has died in a road accident in Co. Westmeath.

Gardaí are looking for the public's help in tracing a 19-year-old man who has been missing for a week.

The man arrested on Tuesday in relation to the disappearance of six-year-old Mary Boyle 37 years ago was last night released without charge.

Gardaí are continuing to question a 64-year-old man in connection with the disappearance of Mary Boyle almost 40 years ago.

The mother of missing six-year-old Mary Boyle says she knows the man who has been arrested in connection with her daughter’s disappearance in 1977.

Gardaí in Co. Westmeath have seized €400,000 worth of cannabis.

Sergeant Maurice McCabe is experiencing ongoing harassment at his place of work as a result of his efforts to expose malpractice in the Garda, the Irish Examiner has learned.

Garda whistleblower John Wilson has joined the ranks of a new, non-party political grouping to contest the local elections next May.

On December 14, 2012, Sergeant Maurice McCabe was asked to remain on after work in Mullingar Garda Station.

Garda whistleblower Sergeant Maurice McCabe has spoken publicly for the first time to dispute what he says are “false and misleading statements” which were attributed to Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan in reports yesterday.

Two men have been arrested in connection with an armed robbery in Dublin.

A number of people received minor injuries when a “serious public order incident” erupted before a Mass in a cemetery in Mullingar, Co Westmeath, yesterday.

Gardaí in Mullingar are investigating the circumstances of a single vehicle collision outside Mullingar this afternoon.

Gardaí are hoping they will be able to bring charges against a man in relation to alleged rapes of two prostitutes in a hotel last week.

Gardaí in Co Westmeath are investigating a serious assault in Mullingar overnight.

Gardaí at Mullingar, Co Westmeath are today investigating a fatal two-car traffic accident.

Three young people have today been charged with the unlawful killing of Andrew Dolan.

Two men have been arrested in County Westmeath after gardaí found cannabis plants at a grow-house in an industrial unit in Mullingar.

€180,000 worth of drugs have been seized in Co Westmeath.

A man who was seriously assaulted in Westmeath on the 23rd of December, has died in hospital from his injuries.

Two men have been arrested in connection with an armed robbery at a post office in Tyrrellspass, Co Westmeath this morning.

A 29-year-old woman has been arrested in connection with an attack in Co Westmeath.

A woman has died following a collision between the car she was driving and an articulated truck in Co Westmeath this afternoon.

A woman detained in 1993 on suspicion of her husband’s murder told a garda she liked that she didn’t know if she could trust the detectives interviewing her but that she was ready to tell her story.

A man is due in court in Mullingar this evening in connection with a serious assault on a girl in the town last week.

A man has died in hospital following a road crash in Co Westmeath this morning.

A number of shots were fired during an incident in County Westmeath last night.

A MAN arrested at Dublin airport last night will appear in court this morning charged with a murder in Co Westmeath 21 years ago.

Gardaí are investigating a road crash in Co. Westmeath in the early hours of this morning.

A woman being questioned by Gardaí in connection with the suspected murder of a man in Co Westmeath 21 years ago has been released without charge.

A 29-year-old Meath man who inexplicably killed his friend after a day of drinking and taking drugs together has been jailed for four years at the Central Criminal Court.

Gardaí have stepped up security in Westmeath following a violent feud there earlier today.

A Meath man accused of murdering his friend, told a doctor he wanted treatment for alcohol addiction one month before the alleged murder, the Central Criminal Court has heard today.

Gardaí were tonight continuing to investigate an horrific car crash in Edgeworthstown, Co Longford which claimed the lives of two young schoolgirls aged six and nine, and left two in critical conditon in hospital.

A man has been arrested during an ongoing investigation into alleged blackmail, gardaí said tonight.

Gardaí now say the young man whose body was found in a camper van in Co Westmeath was murdered.

A preliminary post mortem has been carried on the body of a man in his 20s, found in Co Westmeath in the early hours of the morning.

Gardaí have arrested two people in connection with a drugs seizure in county Westmeath today.