Poll: Should Ireland bring in a DNA database for criminals?
The DNA of the most serious criminals will be kept on a database under a new law. But is it a good idea? Or a step too far for civil liberties?
View ArticleNokia was blackmailed into paying millions to criminals back in 2008
The criminals acquired the encryption key for a core part of Nokia’s Symbian software, and threatened to make it public if their demands weren’t met.
View ArticlePoll: Should we introduce ‘sobriety tags’ for offenders of alcohol-related...
A pilot scheme was launched in London yesterday – should we follow suit?
View ArticleMan tried to pass off a crushed up pop tart as crack cocaine, still got arrested
Not-so-smooth criminal.
View ArticleHere’s how much money was seized from criminals last year
CAB released its 2013 Annual Report today.
View Article‘It has never been easier to get away with white collar crime in Ireland’
Can criminals do more damage with a computer than with a gun in a bank?
View ArticleBurglars hold knife to 15-month-old baby before stealing cash and jewellery
One of the burglars posed as a water meter reader to gain access to the mother’s home.
View ArticleNew national DNA database to become operational this year
IT improvements for the gardaí are on the way said Minister Frances Fitzgerald.
View ArticleWell, this is quite the crime scene…
Metropolitan Police uncovered *quite* the mess today.
View ArticleThis is NOT how you flush cannabis down the toilet
Metropolitan Police uncovered *quite* the mess today.
View ArticleIreland has a Witness Protection Programme and we’ve spent €400k on it this year
The protection programme was set up as gardaí tackled gangland crime.
View ArticleEver take a ‘sensitive’ photo of yourself? You could be at risk of sextortion
Faceless criminals are using young peoples’ personal images to extort money from them and the FBI want it to stop.
View Article‘Want to stop people breaking into your house? Turn your lights on’, says the...
The seasonal warning comes as an increase in crime is expected.
View ArticlePrison officers admit they don’t know what to do with prison gangs
“This is the problem – the kind of control these people have over the general population.”
View ArticleNew DNA database will ‘close the net’ on serial offenders
It’s hoped the system will help find missing people and deal with an increase in burglaries.
View ArticleMurderer, Irish-American gangster, FBI informer: The Whitey Bulger story
The author of Black Mass and Bulger’s biography Dick Lehr speaks to us about the criminal’s life.
View ArticlePolice say most Cologne mob suspects were asylum seekers
Police have confirmed receiving over 120 complaints of assaults, ranging from groping to two alleged rapes.
View ArticleRetaliation: Eddie Hutch, brother of ‘The Monk’, shot dead in Dublin city
Emergency services have been at the scene on Poplar Row since before 8pm.
View ArticleWe seem to have forgotten the Special Criminal Court is supposed to be...
While Sinn Féin’s manifesto pledge was always going to attract close scrutiny, the shootings in the past week have thrust its existence to the top of the news-cycle, writes Dr Alan Greene.
View ArticleGangs of Dublin: Another shooting, but who’s fighting who?
The killing of Vincent Ryan means gardaí are now contending with two active gangland feuds.
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