GSOC say they are investigating the incident and want to speak to anyone who may have seen a black Lexus with a Northern Ireland registration in the area around the time of the crash.

Gardaí targeting dissident republicans have uncovered a significant cache of explosives and arms along the border, in the second linked operation since the start of February.

Gsoc has been denied access to confidential records in the Garda’s Security & Intelligence Section in relation to Adrian Crevan Mackin, who shot Garda Tony Golden dead and almost killed his estranged partner Siobhan Phillips in October 2015.

A rescue dog has been credited with saving the life of a woman whose home went on fire in the early hours of St Valentine’s Day.

The widow of hero garda Tony Golden, who was shot dead two years ago while trying to protect a woman from her abusive partner, has accepted a medal for bravery on his behalf.

Latest: Divisions between Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael are widening tonight over the Taoisach's intervention in the Jobstown case.

The Garda Siochana Ombudsman Commission must apply to the High Court for transcripts relating to appearances before the Special Criminal Court of Adrian Crevan Mackin, who shot dead Garda Anthony Golden in 2015 before killing himself.

The Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission has applied to the Special Criminal Court for transcripts relating to appearances before the court of Adrian Crevan Mackin, who shot dead Garda Anthony Golden in 2015 before killing himself.

Gardaí who dealt with Adrian Crevan Mackin in the months before he murdered Garda Tony Golden are to be investigated on their knowledge of the risk he presented and whether they shielded him from prosecution.

A criminal has threatened a pregnant garda that he will “rape her and her unborn child”.

From the high of the marriage referendum to domestic and foreign threats, and more Garda controversies, it’s been an extraordinary year for justice and law, writes Cormac O’Keeffe

The house where Garda Tony Golden lived is an ordinary house, modest, red-bricked, semi-detached with starlings chattering on the roof and a small patch of lawn to the front.

FROM early in the morning, rivers of blue flowed into Louth. From every corner of the country, gardaí took to the roads in the dark and cold.

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Update at 9.45pm: The dead garda was understood to be aged in his 30s and a married father of three young children. Another man died and a woman is seriously injured as a result of the shooting incident in Co Louth.

Evidence shows Owen Corrigan passed information to the IRA — but it cannot be proved he colluded in the murders of Harry Breen and Bob Buchanan, the tribunal found.

Plans for a cross-border bridge at the site of one of the worst atrocities of the Troubles have been dealt another blow after funding from Europe was pulled.

Eighteen people are being treated after toxic gas used to kill rodents escaped from a ship docked at a harbour in the North.

Irish planning authorities have given the go-ahead for a new bridge to be built at Narrow Water between Co Louth and Co Down.

The Government has announced a €7m investment in cycle routes across the country.

She had waited 22 years for her partner to tackle the issue, so last night Dublin woman Martina Connolly used the Ireland and Czech Republic encounter — and the day that was in it — to win a very special and long overdue match.

CARLINGFORD, Co Louth, is a small and particularly beautiful village situated in the extreme north-east corner of our little Republic — the very place, in fact, where you can see the Mountains of Mourne sweep down to the sea.

A British agent who infiltrated the IRA has claimed today that a convicted bomb-maker was also a secret informer.

A former British double agent in the IRA has denied being a pathological liar over claims a suspected Garda mole destroyed evidence from one of the worst atrocities in the Troubles.

A British agent who infiltrated the IRA revealed there was not a day when the terror group was not trying to kill a member of the security forces.

AN armed garda was forced to open fire after a car driven by a suspected burglar reversed at speed towards another garda, it has emerged.

Armed gardaí discharged a shot at a car in Co Louth last night after the vehicle rammed a patrol car.

Detectives were continuing to quiz five men today as part of an ongoing operation against dissident republican activity close to the Border.

Gardaí have found ammunition in Counties Louth and Meath during a series of searches linked to the arrests of five dissident republicans near the border.

Five people have been arrested in Co Louth as part of a major garda investigation targeting dissident republicans.