A woman from the Dominican Republic and her teenage son are facing prosecution for jointly trying to import a substantial quantity of cocaine into Ireland.

The Special Criminal Court remanded in custody a Dublin man who is charged with the possession of a firearm and ammunition.

A teenager remains in critical condition this evening after a violent attack in Dublin last night.

One kilo of cocaine with a street value of €70,000 has been seized at Dublin Airport.

A crack cocaine addict who pointed a gun at a gardaí who arrived at the scene of a robbery and who later spat blood at a garda has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for four armed raids and other offences.

A 35-year-old man has been arrested at Dublin Airport following the seizure of 18kg of herbal cannabis with a potential street value of €216,000.

Gardaí tonight arrested a man after €400,000 worth of cocaine was seized at Dublin Airport.

A Detective Sergeant has denied under cross-examination that he put words into the mouth of a murder accused who admitted during an interview that he had organised the shooting of a man in Ballymun in Dublin.

A Dublin man accused of murdering another man by shooting him at close range in the back of the head denied carrying out the killing and told gardaí his sole purpose in the crime was to take away the gun.

MICHAEL MCDOWELL, we were told this week, had depicted himself as the ‘Messiah of Dublin South East’ who had engaged in the “final betrayal”.

A 17-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a shooting incident in Dublin last night.

A Dublin man who spent three days in jail on behalf of his brother was today released from custody.

A PIPE bomb left under a van outside a house in north Dublin was a sophisticated device capable of causing serious injury or death, if it exploded, gardaí said last night.

Heroin worth about €100,000 was seized by gardaí in a search of a house in Ballymun, Dublin.

Gardaí have arrested three men in connection with an attempted robbery at an off-licence in Dublin overnight.

Customs officers at Dublin Airport have arrested a Galway woman after seizing two kilograms of MDMA powder.

Customs officers at Dublin Airport have seized a quantity of cocaine worth €250,000.

Two men and one woman have been arrested by gardaí in Dublin following a massive seizure of cannabis with a street value of €110,000.

Gardaí arrested three men and seized a number of firearms today as part of an ongoing operation into the activities of dissident republicans.

Four people are still being held by gardaí in connection with a drugs haul two nights ago in Dublin.

A stun gun was found in a room booked under a false name at a Co Meath hotel when Special Branch detectives raided the room, the Special Criminal Court was told today.

TWO men, one from Dublin and the other from Limerick, appeared in different courts yesterday on charges of possessing child pornography.

A man is due in court this morning on charges of false imprisonment after another man was found bound and gagged in the boot of a car in Dublin.

Eighteen kilograms of herbal cannabis have been seized at Dublin Airport following a combined operation by gardai and customs officials.

Gardai have arrested a woman at Dublin airport after a quantity of cannabis

Two men are still being questioned by Gardai following the seizure of £80,000 of cannabis resin in Ballymun, Dublin.

There has been a drug seizure on Dublin's northside. £80,000 of cannabis resin has been discovered during a planned search of a flat in Ballymun.