Former US Marine Timothy Kaufman finally appeared in court after he and two accomplices allegedly murdered former Irish police officer David Balmer and his girlfriend Elma de Guia in the Philippines.  

Timothy Noah Kaufman, a marine combat veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, was taken into custody on Wednesday 24 April in connection with the killing of a former Northern Ireland police officer and his girlfriend in 2011.

A suspected Irish cop killer has fled to the United States where he entered the country illegally, Irish police say. The FBI and other US law enforcement agencies have been asked to help seek his apprehension and deportation.

An Irish bar owner was at the heart of the fast moving events shown worldwide in Watertown last night.

John Donohue (42), who traces his roots to Athlone, was tending his bar on Bigelow Avenue, called Donohue’s, in the Boston suburb around 1.30am last night when several people came running into the bar warning him that police were pouring into the street just a few hundred yards away.

On Monday the U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal to keep secret interviews with former Irish Republican Army members from being turned over to police authorities in Northern Ireland.

The chief executive officer of one of Ireland’s largest Irish colleges, Colaiste na bhFiann, has backed calls for the police to order a review into sexual allegations against the recently deceased Domhnall Lubhlai.

Gardai (police) have been confronting government ministers including Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Enda Kenny this week over cutbacks in conditions and closures of police stations.

A child's car seat could be a vital clue for detectives seeking the gang which murdered Detective Adrian Donohoe a month ago near the border.

More than 4,000 representatives of 70,000 nurses, Gardai (police), firefighters and prison officers have signaled that emergency personnel are prepared to take industrial action to protect their pay.

YouTube has deleted footage of two school girls fist fighting in a vicious brawl in Cork last Friday.

Independent deputy and police critic Clare Daly is under suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol and faces a ban.

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 blood-stained baby wipe and pillow were discovered in the bedroom of the baby that Irish immigrant Aisling McCarthy Brady, (34), has been charged of assaulting.

Postal workers intercepted a viable letter bomb addressed to a high ranking senior police officer in Northern Ireland.

The Chief Constable of the PSNI has apologized to nationalist residents in Belfast whose homes were attacked by loyalist protesters over the weekend.

Northern Ireland’s First Minister Peter Robinson has urged loyalists to back the Good Friday agreement after another night of violence in East Belfast.

A 14-year-old African girl’s miscarriage in an Irish hospital last year is being investigated after allegations that the girl may have been raped by her father, and that her father may have fed her a “witch doctor potion” to abort the pregnancy.

The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) have fired plastic bullets and water cannons at protesters late on Monday during a fifth consecutive night of riots during flag protests in the capital Belfast.

A protestor has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after shots were fired on the latest night of flag protests in Belfast.