The convicted rapist linked with the disappearance of American student Annie McCarrick has been accused of another murder.

Thirty members of an Irish Traveller’s crime network have been arrested in eight countries across Europe. Known as the “Rathkeale Rovers,” Europol believe they are involved in counterfeit products, tarmac fraud, robbery, money laundering and drug trafficking across the Americas, Asia and Australia.

An Irish nanny in Quincy has been charged with injuring a baby girl in her care who then died according to Middlesex District Attorney Gerard T. Leone.

Irish nanny Aisling McCarthy Brady, from County Cavan, has pleaded not guilty to the assault and battery of a one-year-old baby girl in Boston. The Irish native has been remanded on $500,000 bail after a court hearing in Cambridge.

An Irish police detective  was shot dead after an attempted robbery near Dundalk, County Louth. a few miles from the Irish border on Friday night in a crime that has shocked the nation. It is 1996 since such a similar killing took place.

A Tyrone man has been sentenced to a minimum of 25 years in prison for the brutal killing of his former partner’s 15-month old daughter.

New details show the case against Aisling McCarthy Brady, who is accused of fatally assaulting one-year-old Rehma Sabir, is full of "holes" according to Melinda Thompson, the lawyer who defended the 34-year-old Irish nanny at her arraignment on Friday.

Police on both sides of the Irish border believe a North Louth-South Armagh based gang of thieves are responsible for the murder of detective Adrian Donohoe on the Cooley Peninsula.

Thousands of mourners were on hand at St. Joseph’s Redemptorist Church in Dundalk, Co Louth to pay their respects to 41-year-old detective garda Adrian Donohoe who was shot while on duty last week.

Dissident Republicans are planning a terrorist attack on the G8 summit in Fermanagh this summer according to security experts with Britain’s MI5.

An evil rapist who laughed in a Cork woman’s face and told her he was HIV positive and suffering from Hepatitis C has been jailed for nine years.

The missing property developer found wandering on a country road in Leitrim had the word ‘thief’ engraved into his forehead – and claims he was abducted by the Russian mafia.

People in Ireland have one of the highest cocaine use rates in Europe, according to a new study.

Investigators believe Det Garda Adrian Donohoe, who was shot while escorting a cash delivery at Lordship Credit Union, in north Louth, last Friday, may have been killed for recognizing the gunman.

A Dublin woman has succeeded in her attempts to get the media to focus on Magdalene Laundries by trending on Twitter days ahead of the publication of a government report into the scandal.

A man suspected of involvement in the murder of Detective Adrian Donohoe has been warned by police that his life is in danger.

One of the most famous animal kidnapping cases the in the world took place in Ireland thirty years ago this Thursday.

Up to 2,000 children were illegally exported from Magdalene laundries in Ireland to adoptive parents in the U.S., mainly to wealthy families.

The Irish tycoon who turned up disorientated and disheveled on a remote country road is claiming he was held by a Russian mafia gang.

A member of the Irish parliament has compared himself to Bill Clinton as he called for the legalization of drugs – after admitting to taking cocaine, ecstasy and acid.

Survivors of Catholic run workhouses in Ireland are awaiting an apology today, when an Inter-Departmental Committee report is published into the State’s involvement in their detention and exploitation.

A leading Catholic lawyer and commentator has slammed the Pope for publicly shaming Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony over clerical child abuse whilst treating Irish Cardinal Sean Brady in an entirely different matter.

Irish police are ready to make a number of arrests as they chase the gang who murdered detective Adrian Donohoe.

A Co.Clare court heard how a 10-year-old was left to care for her six younger siblings while her mother went on drinking  binges with her partner.

A teenager stabbed his victim nine times after luring him into a trap by arranging a fake date with a girl, via text message.

School Finally Gets Toilets
THE days of children having to traipse across the yard to use outside toilets will soon come to an end at a Limerick school.

Police have been investigating violence directed at Armagh churches in recent weeks. Suspicious devices were left at churches in Newtownabbey and Ballyclare and a church in Whitehead was targeted by arsonists. No arrests have been made and no motive given.

A Polish father of two had acid thrown in his face as he stood outside his Dublin home early Monday morning, in what appears to have been a random attack.

An Irish businesswoman who appeared on 'The Late Late Show,' Ireland's most widely watched chat show, to talk about the threat of crime after she was attacked in a burglary has been subjected to another vicious assault.

Ireland became the ‘destination of choice’ for prostitutes over the boom years, according to a top crime official.

Wildlife service has recovered the bodies of another two white-tailed sea eagles in west Cork and south Kerry. Since 2011 26 of these protected birds have been found dead, 12 of these were poisoned.

A mother-of-four in Louth was devastated to discover that a con man from Texas had stolen her dead son’s identity and assumed his persona under a fake passport.

The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI)  has advised the public not to consume Findus Frozen beef lasagne found to contain up to 100 percent horse meat.
 
Professor Alan Reilly, Chief Executive of the FSAI said it is unknown whether the product could pose a food safety risk. Tests are being carried out in the UK to established the presence of veterinary medicine phenylbutazone is present in the frozen lasagnes. Animals who have been treated with this drug are forbidden to enter the food chain.
 
Reilly said “Our advice to consumers at this point, is not to consume this product, but to dispose of it or return it to their retailer.”
 
The Findus product was removed from stores in the UK following the discovery that is was made from predominantly horse meat. The discovery came from the French-based company, Comigel, who were concern about the type of meat being used in the product.

A judge in Cork has sent five men to jail for five months for dangerous driving after a sulky race on the Cork to Mallow road last May.

Despite being defunct since 1996, the notorious Magdalene Laundries of Ireland have left long lasting legacies. Etta Thornton-Verma shares her story of finding out that her own mother was a victim of one of the workhouses.

A car belonging to loyalist flag protest chief Willie Frazer has been burnt out – hours after he received a death threat.

A young Irish immigrant is fighting for his life in Perth after a weekend stabbing in the western Australian city.

The Irish businessman who claimed he was kidnapped by Russia mafia has gone missing again – this time of his own free will.

Animal protection officers have completed the largest dog rescue in the history of the Irish state.

The Irish High Court has reportedly approved the serving of bankruptcy proceedings on developer Sean Dunne at his next court appearance in the US.

Tycoon Denis O’Brien has won an historic defamation case against British company Associated Newspapers, the publishers of the Irish Daily Mail.

Locals in the Co. Roscommon village of Kiltoom were horrified this week when thieves ransacked the home of an elderly woman who died tragically in a car accident just hours earlier.

The automated pro-life phone messages targeting Irish numbers, in the aftermath of Savita Halappanavar’s death in Galway in 2012, came from the United States.

A video has emerged which shows a group of Irish men and one woman fist fighting during a night out in Perth.

The young Wexford man attacked in Perth last week has died in hospital as a result of his stab wounds.

Northern Ireland farm authorities may use agricultural drones to spy on money grabbing farmers.

Police in Australia have confirmed that the man held in connection with the death of emigrant Kenny Meyler is also Irish.

The Irish government has announced the process of compensation amounting to $133 million, for Magdalene survivors should be wound up by August.