Update: Gardaí have released all three people without charge.

Former justice minister Alan Shatter has launched a scathing attack on Transport Minister Shane Ross, accusing him of “bombastic fakery” and “fantasy politics” over his plans to reopen Stepaside Garda Station.

A project manager with the IDA told a court she was being sued by and on behalf of three people who were not in a car she collided with.

Fine Gael have “little or no interest” in seeking a continuation of government with Independent Alliance “headbangers” after the next election, sources say.

Transport Minister Shane Ross has batted away accusations of engaging in ‘gombeen politics’ over the allocation of sporting grants and, instead, highlighted opposition TDs lobbying for club funds.

The decision to re-open Stepaside Garda Station has been branded “Del Boy politics” by a member of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), which has criticised the move.

Maternity leave is being extended for mothers whose babies are born prematurely. The Government decision will be announced today and is expected to benefit over 4,500 mothers annually.

A suspicious mind might conclude there were too many coincidences involved in the decision to reopen Stepaside station, writes Special Correspondent Michael Clifford.

Questions about the Government decision to reopen Stepaside Garda Station in south Dublin have again been raised, amid fresh claims that the move was a political stroke, delivered by Transport Minister Shane Ross for his constituency.

The HSE and gardaí are at the centre of an escalating stand-off with a Dáil committee after failing to hand over key documents into the Grace foster abuse and Stepaside garda station controversies.

A two-year-old child suffered terror on almost a daily basis for five months while in the care of a creche exposed by RTÉ on its A Breach of Trust documentary in 2013, a judge heard yesterday.

Garda counter-terrorism officers are to consult with foreign security agencies following the arrest of two men on suspicion of funding so-called Islamic State (IS), writes Cormac O’Keeffe of the Irish Examiner.

The men, a male Algerian national and a male Moroccan national, are aged in their 30s and 40s respectively.

A man, aged in his 20s, has been arrested in connection with a burglary at a retail premises in Stepaside, Dublin early this morning.

A model, a disgraced ex-judge and a restaurateur are among those to have been hit with big fines and bills by the taxman.

The argument that Garda stations had been a deterrent to crime when they were in operation does not stand up, writes Micheal Clifford

There have been dramatic increases in the level of burglaries in many regions in the past year, with incidents of crime up over a third in Kildare and parts of Dublin.

A four-year-old girl, who allegedly suffered psychological injuries while attending a creche mentioned in an RTÉ expose on the mistreatment of children, has been offered a settlement of €15,000, a court has heard.

The organiser of the Taste of Dublin food festival — which takes place this weekend at Iveagh Gardens — has been named on the Revenue Commissioners’ latest quarterly defaulters list, in respect of a tax settlement totalling €120,000.

He is well on the road to recovery and with a clear destination in mind: Damien Duff is hoping to make his League of Ireland debut before the season is out.

Cormac O’Keeffe catalogues the painstaking policing and investigative work, as well as the chance discoveries, that contributed to the conviction of Graham Dwyer for the murder of Elaine O’Hara. (This article was originally published in March 2015)

A former partner of murder accused Graham Dwyer yesterday said he would pretend to stab her while having sex.

The Graham Dwyer trial has heard from two men, who met Elaine O’Hara through a website that caters for alternative sexual tastes.

The Graham Dwyer trial has heard that gardaí showed his adult son CCTV stills from Elaine O’Hara’s apartment block to see whether he could identify anyone in the footage.

I’ve always been industrious, even as a child. I was a bit of a young entrepreneur. I had an ability with money. 

The jury in the Elaine O’Hara murder trial was shown a photograph of a punctured and bloodstained mattress, which gardaí found following the discovery of her remains in September 2013.

The Central Criminal Court has heard heavy metal chains, a rope and a pvc body suit were found at Elaine O'Hara's Dublin apartment after her disappearance.

Elaine O’Hara’s brother has testified that he found the name of a fetish lifestyle website in her apartment when the family searched it two days after she disappeared.

A deputy crèche manager has been cleared of wilfully neglecting two toddlers who escaped and were found wandering by a stream.

A crèche told parents and gardaí that two toddlers had gone missing for three or four minutes and were found outside the front door when, in fact, the children were missing for more than 20 minutes and were found by a stream almost 200m away.

Investigations are continuing after the skeletal remains of Elaine O'Hara were discovered by Gardaí in Dublin over a week ago.

A 50m grid search will continue over the coming days to locate the rest of Elaine O’Hara’s remains — with gardaí eager to find a neck bone and her skull.

Mobile phone records are to be examined by Gardaí investigating the discovery of the remains of Elaine O'Hara.

Detectives are trawling through an online dating website following the discover of a woman’s remains in the Dublin Mountains.

Gardaí are keeping an open mind on the possibility of links between the disappearance of Elaine O’Hara and other disappearances as part of Operation Trace and the search for women missing in the Leinster area since the 1990s.

A murder inquiry is expected to be confirmed as gardaí piece together several locations linked to the death of a woman whose body was found in a mountain forest.

As a second crime scene is sealed off as part of the Garda inquiry into the death of Elaine O’Hara, 36, it looks increasingly likely that a murder investigation will be launched.

As a second crime scene is sealed off as part of the Garda inquiry into the death of Elaine O’Hara, 36, it looks increasingly likely that a murder investigation will be launched.

Skeletal remains found in mountains near Dublin have been identified as Elaine O’Hara, who had been missing for over a year.

The Prime Time Investigates documentary on creches, 'A Breach of Trust', is to be broadcast tonight.

Childcare organisations are calling on the Government to fund improved training of childcare staff as they try to dampen down a “crisis of confidence” created by revelations about substandard practice at three Dublin creches.

Fianna Fáil is calling on the Children's Minister to direct the HSE to publish all crèche inspection reports as a matter of urgency.