Acclaimed authors Mary Higgins Clark, Lawrence Block, Harlan Coben, Nelson DeMille, head of Killer Films Christine Vachon, and musician Joe Hurley will join the witty and entertaining author, BBC host and Booker Prize judge Frank Delaney for the fifth bi-annual Pen, Paper and Palate literary salon at the Half King Bar, New York City.

Independent Councillor Michael Kilcoyne from Castlebar, Co. Mayo  wishes to pass a law making the wearing of hoodies illegal and claims that hoodies are restricting the solving of crimes in the area.

Archbishop Diarmuid Martin has responded to Cardinal Wilfrid Fox Napier of Durban’s comments on sexual abuse. The Dublin Archbishop has stated that the abuse of a child is “very clearly a crime.”

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.

The Irish nanny, in Boston, accused of the assault of one-year-old Rehma Sabir causing her death, has failed to raise bail of $500,000 designated by the court. Aisling McCarthy Brady will now remain in prison until February 22 when her case is resumed.

The new Bishop of Cloyne has vowed to bring about reconciliation in one of the dioceses worst hit by clerical sex abuse scandals.

A Connemara woman was found guilty by a jury of the manslaughter of her former lover in a Salthill apartment during race week two years ago, the Irish Times reports.

Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams has apologised for the IRA murder of Irish police officer Jerry McCabe – 17 years later.

One of the biggest issues facing gun control in New York is the vast supply of handguns, NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly said Monday.

The killing of an Irish police detective during a credit union hold-up has been called an attack on the Irish state and its police force.

The policeman who witnessed the callous murder of detective Adrian Donohoe has vowed to catch his killers.

Detective Joe Ryan, the partner of murdered cop Adrian Donohue, was warned that he would be shot in the head if he came to the aid of his dying friend.

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.

The widow of murdered detective Jerry McCabe has called on the Irish government to crack down on the ‘dark pockets’ in Ireland after the latest police killing.

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.

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.

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.

Less than twelve months after he pled guilty to shooting and killing Army Sergeant Matthew Gallagher of North Falmouth, former sergeant Brent McBride is due to appear before a parole board.