Update 8.45am: A man in his 40s has been arrested in Dublin after a suspect package was found at Store Street garda station this morning.

A man has been arrested in Dublin in connection with an alleged fraud on an Italian man.

A man is facing trial after a six-year-old with Down syndrome became separated from his family in the heart of a Dublin shopping district.

Gardaí are continuing to question a man and a woman in relation to a gruesome shooting in Dublin’s north inner city on Sunday night, which may be linked to an 11-hour crime spree.

Gardaí have arrested a man following an assault on a women and theft of a car with a passenger in it in Dublin’s city centre this afternoon.

Gardaí interrupted a burglary in progress in Dublin disarming a man with a knife who was subsequently arrested.

A US lawyer has been given a four-month stopover in a Dublin jail following an air rage incident on a transatlantic flight.

Tackle the world and do so with joy, President Michael D Higgins told 33 young people who received a Gaisce gold medal yesterday.

Gardaí are waiting to interview a man who survived a second point blank assassination attempt in the space of a year.

Gardaí investigating the savage attack on a man who was shot in the head while driving through inner-city Dublin have recovered the getaway motorbike used in the assault.

A man who took part in a suspected hijacking of a taxi in Dublin early yesterday morning was killed moments later when the car smashed into a bridge near the River Liffey.

Gardaí believe a man who got out of his car following an accident was killed after being hit by another vehicle which lost control in an icy pile-up.

WE used to call them “green ink letters”.

Gardaí have conducted over 9,000 drug searches in the centre of Dublin so far this year in a policy that the Garda chief responsible described as “bordering on oppressive policing”.

Scores of houses and apartments were sensationally raided throughout yesterday as gardaí sought to smash brothel-keeping businesses the length and breadth of the island.

A man in his 30s has been arrested in connection with the murder of Ciaran Noonan.

A Dublin man charged with IRA membership and extortion was granted bail by the Special Criminal Court today.

The Garda Ombudsman is investigating the death of a 52-year-old man in garda custody early today.

Gardaí have arrested a man in his forties following an investigation into threats to kill or cause harm to another person.

Gardai have renewed their appeal for information surrounding the shooting dead of a 21-year-old man in front of his brother in Dublin.

Two men are being questioned in Dublin following a heroin seizure in the city centre.

A 42-year-old Dublin man appeared at The Bridewell District Court today, charged with having in his possession €220,000 worth of heroin on Saturday evening.

A man has been arrested following a €200,000 heroin seizure in Dublin.

THE families of two young men who died in suspicious circumstances after being arrested by gardaí yesterday joined forces in their fight for inquiries into the deaths.

The families of two young men who died in suspicious circumstances after being arrested by gardai today joined forces in their fight for inquiries ino the deaths.

THE family of an 18-year-old who died after being released from garda custody demanded an independent inquiry yesterday into the circumstances behind his death.

A Nigerian teenage asylum seeker has been remanded in custody pending a pre-sentence probation report after pleading guilty to trafficking in €3,000 worth of crack cocaine.

Two members of An Garda Siochana have been found not guilty by a Dublin Circuit Criminal Court jury of assaulting a "Reclaim the Streets" protestor in May 2002.

The trial of three gardaí accused of beating a Reclaim the Streets protestor on the head with their batons has continued in legal argument in the absence of the jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

€3.3m worth of drugs has been seized in north Dublin.

Gardaí are appealing for witnesses to an assault which occurred in Dublin overnight leaving one man in a critical condition in hospital.

Gardaí in Dublin have launched a murder inquiry after a Chinese man was stabbed to death outside a pub in the city.

Three men have been arrested following an attempted security van hold-up in Irishtown, Dublin.

Gardai in Dublin are still questioning two men following yesterday’s million pound drugs find in the capital.

A woman is being questioned in connection with a vicious assault on an elderly couple in Dublin.