Refurbishing cells in a Garda station in Cork City resulted in an increase in assaults because gardaí were tied up taking prisoners to outlying stations.

THE Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) yesterday arrested the man claimed to be a key figure in Munster’s sex industry.

THE Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) has slapped a multi-million-euro tax bill on a key figure in the sex industry.

SUSPECTED dissident Republicans were in custody last night after a millionaire businessman was tied up and pistol-whipped, while his pregnant wife was held at gunpoint in what gardaí believe was an extortion bid attempt.