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US Marshals given details of suspect in Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe case (IrishCentral)

Mon, 06 May 2013 04:52:25 PDT

By: IrishCentral Staff Writers

The US Marshals Service has received details of one of the suspects in the murder of Adrian Donohoe, the Garda detective who was murdered outside a credit union in Co Louth in January.

Registering with the Garda National Immigration Bureau in Dublin - dealing with the bureaucracy of being an immigrant (IrishCentral)

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 05:17:29 PDT

GNIB registration cardI have my GNIB registration card – all the legal bureaucracy is now over with! The GNIB is the Garda National Immigration Bureau, and pretty much any non-Irish national staying in Ireland for longer than the standard tourist Visa limitations has to go to their office on Burgh Quay and register with them They issue you a card to carry around in your wallet, to show to the people in the airport when you re-enter the country, and to provide to employers who want verification that you can work legally My understanding is that it’s basically a residency cardI had to get one when I lived here in Dublin as a student in 2008 READ MORE

Garda Commissioner says 25 criminal gangs at center of Ireland’s underworld (IrishCentral)

Wed, 21 Nov 2012 01:07:47 PST

By: KERRY O'SHEA

Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan has revealed that there are 25 gangs in Ireland at the center of the Irish criminal underbelly. Five of those gangs have significant international ties, making them even more dangerous.

School prank goes awry causing garda squad car damage in Dublin (IrishCentral)

Mon, 21 May 2012 04:51:53 PDT

By: KERRY O'SHEA

Students at St Mary's College in Rathmines, Dublin got more than they bargained for when an end-of-the-year prank went wildly out of control this week.

Irish police pose as prostitutes -- unprecedented Garda sting nets 27 convictions as police promise further crackdowns (IrishCentral)

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 09:30:18 PST

Female Irish detectives posed as prostitutes in an unprecedented sting operation that saw a total of 21 man convicted of soliciting 'ladies of the night'The US-style operation, one of the first on this scale for the Gardaí, took place over almost a month in Limerick city centre and its environs, ultimately bagging the cops a total of 21 convictions before Limerick District Court, all of whom were directed to make a donation to a local charity by the judgeThe men, most of whom were living locally, also had their names and addresses published in an embarrassing 'name and shame' sequitur to the report carried by a local Limerick newspaperMany of the men were in their sixties, although the youngest caught was only 23 READ MORE

Retired Garda takes his own life at police station (IrishCentral)

Sun, 26 Jul 2009 08:06:28 PDT

By: KENNETH HAYNES

The town of Carrick-on-Shannon in County Leitrim was left reeling in shock after the suicide of a retired Detectve Garda at the local station on Saturday.