GARDA operations against gangland criminals have uncovered another three home-made bombs.

An unaccompanied learner driver, who for no apparent reason “stood on her brakes” at a green traffic light, has lost a €38,000 damages claim against Dublin Bus.

ALMOST €19 million in claims for injury and damage to property are pending against the gardaí, new figures reveal.

Gardaí investigating the fatal shooting of criminal gang leader Eamon Dunne in Dublin have arrested two men and a woman.

Two people have been killed in separate road accidents in counties Dublin and Laois overnight.

Two Mullingar men have been sentenced to 11 and six years in prison after being caught in possession of €600,000 worth of cannabis outside a garda station.

The body of a 17-year-old boy has been recovered from the Royal Canal in Dublin.

A man was arrested early today by gardaí investigating the robberies of a number of taxi drivers in north Dublin.

A 31-year-old Dublin man, charged in connection with the attempted robbery of a cash transit van in Co Kildare last November, walked free from the Four Courts after a High Court Judge ordered his release on finding that his detention was unlawful.

SIX men charged with conspiring to steal almost €1 million from a cash-in-transit vehicle last Friday were remanded in custody yesterday.

THERE was tight security yesterday as seven men were charged with conspiracy to rob almost €1 million from a cash-in-transit van last Friday.

A man in his 50s is in custody today following a stand-off with gardaí in north Dublin.

Children's charity Jack and Jill has reported the theft of its charity collection van.

A 43-year-old man is due before a special sitting of Navan District Court today in connection with the death of a woman in Meath.

Gardaí are investigating the death of a woman whose body was found in a house in Co Meath this morning.

A man was in a critical condition in hospital today after being shot by a gang in Dublin.