The operation was set up to target organised crime groups operating across Poland, Spain and Ireland

A youth allegedly caught "digging up" a sawn-off shotgun linked to feuding crime gangs in Dublin has been kept in custody to be served with a book of evidence and a bail hearing later this week

Ten men remain in custody this morning over an investigation into a suspected drug smuggling operation off west Cork

Twelve searches were carried out across Finglas, Lucan and Ronanstown by gardaí backed up by the Defence Forces on Thursday

Two men have been charged as part of an investigation into a gang impersonating gardaí

Crime gang's schemes included on where fraudsters set up a website purporting to sell farm equipment

They said it was part of an ongoing investigation targeting people suspected to be involved in an organised crime group operating in the Drogheda area.