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Gardaí stop car and make incredible €1.75 million drugs discovery

Gardai have seized cocaine worth €1.75 million during an operation in Dublin. As part of Operation Tara, officers arrested a man in Clondalkin on Friday evening. It came as officers stopped a vehicle on St Cuthbert’s Road at about 5.30pm and ...

18 Apr 2022 at 20:33

Scotland

Forensic labs forced to outsource drug driving tests due to high demand

A “totally unacceptable” level of drug driving has resulted in police forensic services having to send tests to private labs, as they cannot meet demand. A report prepared for watchdogs at the Scottish Police Authority told how demand for ...

26 May 2022 at 18:42

Hand odour can reveal a person’s sex, study suggests

The smell left behind by someone’s hand can reveal their sex, a new study suggests. Dogs have long been used in criminal investigations to reliably identify and track people based on their odour. While human scent evidence from the field ...

05 Jul 2023 at 19:00

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Man arrested and €3 million worth of cocaine seized in major drugs bust in Dublin

A man in his 30s has been arrested following a search operation in Dublin where €3 million worth of cocaine was seized. The operation was conducted at a residence in Clondalkin on Tuesday by Gardaí attached to the Serious Crime South in ...

10 Jul 2024 at 10:33

World

Palestinian activists and UK research agency among human rights award recipients

The Right Livelihood Award was awarded on Thursday to three activists from the Palestinian territories, the Philippines and Mozambique and to a UK pioneering research agency who “have each made a profound impact on their communities ...

03 Oct 2024 at 09:01

Detectives in Suffolk to carry out ‘extensive inquiries’ into Ryland Headley

Ryland Headley will now be a consideration in several unsolved cold cases following his conviction for committing rape and murder in 1967, police have confirmed. Detectives in the joint Norfolk and Suffolk major investigation team ...

01 Jul 2025 at 17:15

Jury retires to consider verdicts in 1967 murder trial

A jury has retired to consider its verdicts in the case of a 92-year-old man accused of the rape and murder of an elderly widow in 1967. Ryland Headley, then aged 34, is accused of forcing entry into the home of 75-year-old ...

26 Jun 2025 at 12:53

Inmate died after ‘restraint-related’ incident in prison, inquest hears

A home office doctor has warned jurors about the “complex” restraint-related death of a father-of-four prisoner, an inquest heard. Azroy Dawes-Clarke, 28, from Romford, east London, was an inmate at HMP Elmley, on the Isle ...

18 Jun 2025 at 18:39

National News

Man in his 80s killed in road traffic collision

An elderly man has died following a road traffic collision in Co Cork. Gardai are appealing for witnesses after emergency services were alerted to the incident shortly after noon on Friday on the R585, Dunmanway Road in ...

11 Jun 2022 at 20:33

Ireland

Man in his 80s killed in Co Cork road crash

10 Jun 2022 at 19:31

William meets scientists fighting wildlife poachers and traffickers

The Prince of Wales met scientists on the front line in the war against poachers and traffickers threatening endangered species on his last day in Singapore. The international black market in flora and fauna is ...

08 Nov 2023 at 10:32

Ireland

Man arrested and drugs worth 2.2m euro seized

Gardai have seized drugs worth approximately 2.2 million euro and arrested a man following an operation. On Friday, as part of ongoing investigations under Operation Tara targeting drug trafficking networks, ...

12 Jul 2025 at 15:59

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