Philip Gillivan said while he accepts the drugs issue is complex and requires a multi-agency response, something must be done to clean up the city centre.

A man and a woman are being questioned by gardaí following raids linked to suspected human trafficking.

WHILE Garda recruitment numbers are set to fall from 1,100 to 400 a year due to cutbacks, Justice Minister Dermot Ahern yesterday pledged there would not be a halt to increasing Garda numbers.

A 30-YEAR-OLD man whose brother is a senator yesterday became the youngest ever vice-president of the organisation which represents the county’s 11,000 rank-and-file gardaí.