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Two of four Japanese gang leaders based in the Philippines are deported on suspicion of ordering around 2,300 robberies and phone fraud activities with a total value of 3.5 billion (26.4 million in Japan.
2023-02-7

Irish Agriculture Minister Dara Calleary resigns after attending a golf dinner with more than 80 people, which came a day after Dublin announced a tightening of lockdown restrictions. Gardaí are now investigating possible breaches of COVID-19 regulations on the event.
2020-08-21

Ammunition and a mortar tube was found at the Irish border in County Louth.
2019-02-1

A Polish woman, Elżbieta Piotrowska, is attacked with an axe and dies from her injuries in Ardee, County Louth, Ireland. A man known to her was later arrested.
2019-01-8

A shooting at a house in Omeath, County Louth in the Republic of Ireland leaves two men dead, including an on-duty police officer.
2015-10-11

Recordings of 133 conversations between gardaí, witnesses and journalists relating to the 1996 murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier emerge.
2014-04-3

Mr Justice Nial Fennelly will be appointed to chair the Commission of Investigation into the Garda controversy.
2014-04-1

Court documents seen by RTÉ Radio 1's "This Week" indicate that Gardaí recorded phone conversations with two main witnesses during the 1996 Sophie Toscan du Plantier murder investigation.
2014-03-30

Irish politician Joan Collins names crime journalist Paul Williams and sports star Ronan O'Gara under Dáil privilege as being among those to benefit from having their penalty points for traffic offences cancelled by the Garda Síochána. Justice Minister Alan Shatter calls Collins's action a "total disgrace" and she is reported to a Leinster House watchdog called the Dáil Committee on Procedure and Privileges.
2012-12-12

Former Irish Green Party leader Trevor Sargent resigns as Minister of State for Food and Horticulture after admitting "an error of judgment" involving his contacts with the Garda Síochána.
2010-02-23