An Garda Síochána

Premium

Helen McEntee faces Cabinet backlash over gardaí plans for facial recognition

Justice Minister Helen McEntee is facing a Cabinet backlash over plans to give gardaí powers to use controversial facial recognition technology (FRT) in murder, missing person and child sex abuse cases.

---

Travellers racially abused by gardaí and treated like ‘lowest of the low’, according to report

Travellers have been called k****ers by gardaí and dismissed while trying to report crimes, research into the institutional racism against Travellers in Ireland’s criminal justice system has found.

---

Premium

Garda broke into colleague’s locker at station and stole cash from lunch box inside it, court told

A garda broke into a colleague’s locker at a Dublin station and stole cash from a lunch box inside it, a court has heard.

---

Woman who gave partner alibi during fatal fire probe changed statement after he started new relationship, court hears

A woman who gave her then partner an alibi during an investigation into a fatal fire almost 16 years ago later came forward of her own volition and changed her statement after he started a relationship with another woman, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

---

Premium

exclusive Top Siptu officials forced to replace Trump poster after incident in Dublin pub

Leading officials at trade union Siptu were forced to source and purchase a framed Donald Trump election poster from the United States in order to resolve a potentially embarrassing situation for its top brass after an incident in a popular Dublin pub.

---

Premium

Trinity worked secretly with gardaí over Russian spy student

Trinity College Dublin has been working secretly with An Garda Síochána to unravel the secret life of the Russian spy who masqueraded as a Brazilian student at Ireland’s oldest university.

---

Premium

Firearms certificates issued to 300 minors every year, gardaí reveal

Gardaí issue an estimated 300 licences to minors for guns or gun training every year, figures show.

---

Premium

Garda favouritism row over ‘preferred’ officers being rostered for lucrative overtime shifts for live events

An internal audit is under way by gardaí into how some officers were selected for non-public duties over others, providing potential to earn significant sums of overtime.

---

Letters to the Editor Opinion Decade of centenaries masks awkward side of our history

Sir — I have so far seen no mention anywhere of any events arranged for Galway to commemorate the centenary of the June 28, 1922 burning of the Ballyconree Boys Protestant Orphanage in Sky Road, Clifden, by the Clifden Battalion of the West Connemara Brigade of the anti-Treaty IRA.

---

‘I can still feel the twist of the blade’ – garda tells court how brothers tried to ‘butcher me like an animal’

A member of An Garda Síochána told a court today that he lives everyday with the memory of the night when two brothers tried to “butcher” him “like an animal”.

---

Woman tells gardaí she escaped traffickers who planned to harvest her organs

A woman who walked into Drogheda garda station last Wednesday told officers she had been trafficked into Ireland for the purpose of forcible organ harvest ing.

---

Law rushed through to avoid crisis over garda court presenters

Politicians have passed emergency legislation aimed at avoiding a crisis for Garda resources and the operation of the District Court.

---

Premium

Warning as crime gangs use scams to exploit pensioners’ cost of living concerns

The cost of living crisis has sparked a surge in new scams targeting households.

---

An Garda Síochána ‘engages in racial profiling’, UN told in report by human rights watchdog

The State’s human rights watchdog has again accused An Garda Síochána of engaging in racial profiling.

---

Premium

HSE reporting 11 sex abuse cases in Donegal to gardaí

The Health Service Executive is to report 11 new allegations of sexual abuse at a disability centre in Donegal to An Garda Síochána, decades after they occurred, after a second investigation into the scandal revealed the incidents were never disclosed.

---

Gardaí will seek to charge ‘Del Boy’ Hutch over crash into elderly Ukrainian refugee

Gardaí are seeking criminal charges against Derek ‘Del Boy’ Hutch after he hit and seriously injured a Ukrainian women with his motorbike a fortnight ago.

---

Premium

‘Overload’ in volume of sex crimes is forcing specialist gardaí to delegate cases down to local officers

Specialist gardaí tasked with investigating sex crimes and serious cases involving child victims are so “overloaded” that cases are being referred back to divisional superintendents nationwide.

---

Gallery

Premium

Cocaine crisis — smartphones, social media and garda indiscretion add to serious problem that’s not going away

Contacting a drug dealer in the digital age is very different from the hackneyed imagine of an addict covertly scoring narcotics on a street corner in a bad neighbourhood. Once contact is made with a dealer online, your phone number or social media profile is on their radar and you can become a target for unsolicited contact — videos, menus and messages letting you know when a new batch of high-quality drugs is available to buy.

---

Premium

‘The hate mail was worth it’ says former TD who led the push against handgun ownership in Ireland

A former Fine Gael TD who was targeted with hate mail over his campaign almost 15 years ago to ban handguns has warned of the “creeping proliferation” of the weapons once again.

---

Senior garda sues force over sexual abuse trial

A serving senior garda acquitted of sexually abusing a child that his mother was minding 40 years ago is suing An Garda Síochána.

---

Letters to the Editor Opinion Bank holiday road carnage is a depressingly familiar story

Sir — The appalling death toll on our roads last week is proof that attitudes towards road safety have a very long way to go indeed.

---

Premium

GSOC probes garda’s claim that high-ranking officers ‘protected’ senior detective who sexually abused his sister

The Garda ombudsman is investigating an allegation that a former senior detective, jailed two weeks ago for the historical sexual abuse of his sister, had been “protected” by high-ranking members of the force.

---

Gallery

Premium

DAA and gardaí clash over armed patrols led to frosty relations at Dublin Airport

It all started with a brawl. Or a video of a brawl, to be more specific, showing a number of men violently fighting in the arrivals area of Dublin Airport’s Terminal One on May 24.

---

Premium

More arrests expected in alleged League of Ireland match-fixing scandal

Several more arrests are scheduled to take place in the alleged match-fixing scandal at League of Ireland matches — and the probe is “far from over”, the Sunday Independent understands.

---

Gallery

Gardaí investigated Lisa Smith for training and recruiting people to ISIS

Gardaí investigated Lisa Smith for training and recruiting people to ISIS as well as funding its propaganda campaign as she awaited trial before the Special Criminal Court.

---

Premium

Top garda heading Kinahan gang investigation to retire in June

Assistant Commissioner John O’Driscoll, the investigator spearheading the Garda’s offensive to bring the Kinahan cartel to justice, must retire from the force at the end of next month on age grounds.

---

Former primary teacher probed over historic beating allegations

A former teacher at a primary school in Bray, Co Wicklow, is under Garda investigation after up to 30 pupils made statements of complaint about allegedly being subjected to severe physical abuse in the 1960s and 1970s.

---

End family’s pain and tell them where Sandra is buried — garda

The retired garda who led the investigation into the murder of missing woman Sandra Collins has called on people with information to “have a heart” and help “end her family’s pain”.

---

Premium

Desperate families seek funding boost to help gardaí crack ‘cold case’ crimes

Fourteen cold case crimes are under investigation by the Garda’s Serious Crime Review Team (SCRT), prompting calls for more resources to be provided for the unit to meet family demand.

---

Children at risk of sexual abuse due to cyber-crime investigation backlog

Gardaí have warned that children in Ireland are being sexually exploited online every day because of a three-year backlog in cyber-crime investigations, and say a national public awareness campaign to tackle this “hidden crime” is urgently needed .