‘The flag is our heart’: Anger simmers among military veterans at Tricolour funeral banCo Monaghan priest prohibits use of national flag during funeral Masses for deceased veteransFri Sept 01 2023 - 05:00
Gardaí seize untaxed vehicle after spotting driver filming crash aftermath“If you’re going to be brazen and unsafe, at least be smart”Thu Aug 31 2023 - 17:16
Golan Heights training: ‘Get up on that f**king left bank,’ shouts someone at a machine gun teamMembers of 68th Infantry Group put through paces in live fire exercise in Glen of Imaal in advance of deployment to SyriaWed Aug 30 2023 - 17:47
Reorganisation of Irish policing gathers steam despite criticismAmalgamation and rationalisation process sees number of Garda divisions fall from 28 to 21Mon Aug 28 2023 - 16:30
‘Unprovoked attack’ leaves garda with serious facial injuries in DublinAnother garda suffered more minor injuries after responding to city centre callMon Aug 28 2023 - 15:45
Clonmel crash: Heavy rain suspected to have played ‘significant role’ Gardaí continue to investigate other potential contributory factors to Tipperary collision that killed four peopleMon Aug 28 2023 - 01:00
Murderer of Irish peacekeepers reportedly released after 8½ years in prisonDepartment of Defence is attempting to confirm reports Mahmoud Bazzi was released last month in LebanonSun Aug 27 2023 - 17:07
Naval Service left with two ships to patrol Irish waters due to manpower crisisMove raises questions about how recently purchased vessels from New Zealand will be operatedWed Aug 23 2023 - 20:55
Senior Garda promises to ‘win back’ feeling of safety after meeting Dublin business ownersMeeting took place in wake of a series of assaults and other violent incidents in city centreWed Aug 23 2023 - 13:37
Protesters demand ending to Irish military training for UkraineCommunist Party of Ireland and other activists gathered outside Department of Foreign Affairs after it emerged Ireland is providing basic weapons training to Ukrainian Armed ForcesWed Aug 23 2023 - 05:00
Plan to deploy additional armed gardaí in Dublin city centre criticised as ‘draconian’ by Government TDForce outlines how it intends to spend additional funding provided following series of high-profile attacksTue Aug 22 2023 - 21:35
Youghal Ironman: Tributes paid to ‘gentleman’ Brendan Wall (45) after death during eventFuneral for Co Meath native - one of two men who died during Co Cork triathlon - will take place on ThursdayTue Aug 22 2023 - 13:24
Youghal Ironman: Event not sanctioned to go ahead after water safety assessment by governing bodyOrganisers of triathlon say water conditions were safe as postmortems on two men who died awaitedTue Aug 22 2023 - 12:06
Gardaí not investigating any theft or fraud allegations linked to ATM glitchBank of Ireland error allowing customers to withdraw €1,000 from empty accounts viewed as ‘civil matter’Mon Aug 21 2023 - 20:17
HSE figures show increase in knife attacks as gun violence continues to declineEmergency rooms saw 190 people were treated for non-fatal knife injuries last year, the highest number since 2015Sat Aug 19 2023 - 09:28
Irish weapons training plan for Ukrainian troops a ‘breach of neutrality’, TDs claimPaul Murphy and Neasa Hourigan express concern over move by Defence ForcesFri Aug 18 2023 - 18:19
Irish troops to provide weapons training to Ukraine despite Government’s ‘non-lethal’ assistance pledgeDepartment of Defence insists training does not impact neutrality and that there was no attempt to misled publicFri Aug 18 2023 - 05:00
Garda response to ATM glitch far from ideal, but controversy likely to be short-livedImpression may have formed of gardaí quicker to safeguard bank property than the safety of ordinary peopleThu Aug 17 2023 - 19:30
Sharp increase in number of very short prison terms being imposed by judgesThe number of sentences being handed down of three months or less has more than doubled in the last five yearsThu Aug 17 2023 - 05:00
Bank of Ireland warns credit ratings could be affected by withdrawals made during IT outageGarda says decisons taken locally to deploy officers to ATMs due to ‘public saftey’ concerns as queues builtWed Aug 16 2023 - 19:30
Garda presence at ATM queues triggered by ‘more than 40 calls’ from concerned citizensOne call related to an assault and robbery, gardaí say, as TD accuses the force of acting as ‘private security for Bank of Ireland’Wed Aug 16 2023 - 19:08
Reserve of ex-Defence Forces personnel down to just three officersFirst Line Reserve is made up of retired Defence Forces personnel who can be called up in an emergency to supplement the militaryTue Aug 15 2023 - 04:30
Ireland is awash with cocaine, but how does it get into the country?Garda and Revenue customs officials are engaged in a constant intelligence war against drug cartels that are using new shipping routes set up since Brexit to traffic cocaineSat Aug 05 2023 - 06:00
Sipo pledges to investigate concerns about National Party goldGardaí now believe only a fraction of the gold is owned by the National Party with the rest owned by senior party membersTue Aug 01 2023 - 05:00
Solicitor representing bereaved mother in case against Gemma O’Doherty increases security after alleged threatsCiarán Mulholland is representing a mother suing the far-right activist for allegedly using her late son’s image to push anti-vaccination messagesMon Jul 31 2023 - 17:45
Half of young victims of sexual violence do not tell anyone, study findsVictims who make a disclosure are far more likely to tell a friend than a family member or gardaí, according to the CSOMon Jul 31 2023 - 13:05
‘We’ve finally given them their rightful place’: National Army Civil War dead honoured with monumentMore than 800 mostly working class young men died fighting for the pro-treaty side; for the first time a full roll of honour is available to the publicSun Jul 30 2023 - 15:46
Elderly homeowner fought off burglary gang during Dublin break-inMan (80s) left with minor injuries badly shaken by incident at his homeSun Jul 30 2023 - 15:43
Man in critical condition following road rage incident in north Dublin Gardaí seeking information on assault on Larkhill Road in WhitehallSun Jul 30 2023 - 15:25
The mystery of the far-right National Party’s €400,000 gold: where could it have come from?The fringe far-right Irish political party claimed ‘a considerable quantity of gold’ had been stolen from the party’s safe in DublinFri Jul 28 2023 - 13:30
Family of assaulted US tourist say they ‘never expected any of this’ as they arrive in Dublin Two teenage boys arrested over the assault that left Stephen Termini (57) in comaThu Jul 27 2023 - 12:21
Companies supplying parts to Russian military face prosecution, Coveney warnsThe Minister for Trade said he is “concerned” over reports of Irish made parts being found in Russian weapons in UkraineWed Jul 26 2023 - 18:56
Rank and file gardaí to vote on no confidence motion in commissionerThe motion, first of its kind, may result in significant disruption of policing servicesWed Jul 26 2023 - 18:46
False information about migrants mistreating women and children driving protests, says senior GardaWidespread use of social media and video streaming is also ‘complicating’ policing of protests, which have more than doubled this year, report statesFri Jul 21 2023 - 20:04
Dublin tourist attack: Gardaí following ‘significant lines of inquiry’ after assault on AmericanDublin Town CEO says there seems to be a more aggressive behaviour among young people since the Covid pandemicFri Jul 21 2023 - 16:58
Searing heat a big challenge for Irish Navy in Med mission to prevent weapon smugglingThe crew of the LÉ William Butler Yeats endures near record-breaking temperatures as part of EU mission to enforce an arms blockade on Libya - a foretaste of future missions created by rising temperatures and increased global migrationFri Jul 21 2023 - 14:00
Dublin attack: McEntee vows response to ‘thuggery’ after tourist’s life-changing injuriesCriminality ‘has become normalised in Dublin’, says Fianna Fáil TD Jim O’CallaghanFri Jul 21 2023 - 05:00
Gardaí warn of ‘cocaine tourists’ as search for packages continues in Donegal Investigators believe the drugs were part of a larger consignment which had been moored to a buoy at sea for later collectionFri Jul 21 2023 - 05:00
US tourist has ‘life-changing injuries’ after Dublin city centre attack involving three youthsMan (57) had just left his accommodation on Talbot Street when he was set upon by several youthsThu Jul 20 2023 - 15:52
Ireland’s Defence Forces to get new US-style camouflage uniformsCurrent combat outfits to be phased out over the coming years in favour of the ‘DF Combat Clothing System’Thu Jul 20 2023 - 05:00
Ukraine criticises alleged use of Irish component in Iranian drone used to target civiliansTralee-based company Tillotson allegedly made carburettor used in Shahed drone utilised by Russia over city of Mykolaiv in recent daysWed Jul 19 2023 - 16:00
Russian hackers threaten to release masses of private data stolen from Irish communications regulatorComReg was targeted by group in May and refused to say if data has been publishedWed Jul 19 2023 - 05:00
Ireland has longstanding defence arrangement with RAF, confirms O’DeaFormer Minister for Defence says government receives intelligence from RAF on suspicious aircraft in Irish skiesTue Jul 18 2023 - 00:01
Overseas missions key to driving Defence Forces recruitment, says chief of staffLieut Gen Seán Clancy in Malta to visit Naval Service crew enforcing Libyan arms embargoMon Jul 17 2023 - 06:05
Ireland’s X Files: Records reveal Government confusion over UFOs Requests to open an embassy for extra terrestrials among correspondence to Government ministersSun Jul 16 2023 - 07:15
Finbar Cafferkey: The life and death of an Irish fighter ‘who put his money where his mouth is’ in Ukraine‘He was quite pragmatic about it’: family and comrades tell the story of how an Achill islander (45) wound up first in Syria and later in UkraineSat Jul 15 2023 - 06:00
Purchasing weapons with other countries is good value for money, says TánaisteSpeaking at the launch of the Defence Forces Open Day, Micheál Martin says joint EU procurement is not a threat to neutralityThu Jul 13 2023 - 18:42
Gardaí to be solely responsible for investigating sexual abuse in the militaryExternal oversight group to monitor Defence Forces reforms in wake of Women of Honour allegationsWed Jul 12 2023 - 15:10
Wagner Group disinformation endangering Irish troops in Mali, researchers warnExperts advising the Department of Foreign Affairs say the Russian mercenary group Wagner is behind of much of the disinformation targeting EU troops in MaliWed Jul 12 2023 - 06:00
Irish combat medics return from training Ukrainian troops in GermanyMore than 50 members of the Ukrainian Armed Forces schooled in treating combat casualties effectivelyTue Jul 11 2023 - 19:01
