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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

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

The Irish government agrees the terms of reference for the Commission of Investigation into the Garda phone recordings controversy.
2014-04-8

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

The Department of Justice releases a letter sent on 10 March from then Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan in which he warns them of the recording of phone calls at Garda stations.
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

A detective in the Irish police force is shot dead in an attempted robbery near Dundalk, County Louth.
2013-01-25

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

In Dublin, dozens of complaints are made about the "heavy-handed" tactics of "excessive force" deployed by gardaí following last week's nationwide student demonstration against a government-proposed fee increase, the largest such demonstration in a generation.
2010-11-9

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