A bomb threat was sent to Garda Headquarters, warning that a device would be detonated near a garda station if authorities acted heavily against fuel protesters.
There are hundreds of open investigations into content shared on X, a senior Irish police officer has said, amid concerns over potential child sexual abuse material (CSAM) generated on the platform using the artificial intelligence tool Grok. Irish politicians convened on Wednesday for an Oireachtas Media Committee hearing with Irish police and other experts which largely dealt with growing concerns over the proliferation of CSAM and other AI-generated sexualised material on the social network.
Thus, those of us at work, hear whisperings of undeserved successes, based on dumb luck, cavalier shortcuts, or less generally shared advantages. Yet, envy is not always purely negative because it is about the will to achieve and succeed. Hold those sentiments as we look back at news that former garda commissioner, Drew Harris, got his Phoenix Park home, a spit from his workplace, free of charge during his term of office.
Wexford-based Denis Whelan is keen to bust some of the myths around immigrants which are becoming ubiquitous online. Over the course of three decades with An Garda Síochána, a career which saw him rise to the rank of Superintendent, Denis Whelan has gained a unique insight and perspective on a lot of things.
They are Chloe McGee (23) and Shay Duffy (21), both from Carrickmacross; Alan McCluskey (23) and Dillon Commins (23), both from Drumconrath, and Chloe Hipson (21), from Lanarkshire in Scotland. The five people were in a Volkswagen Golf involved in the collision near Dundalk on Saturday night. They are believed to have been on their way to Dundalk for a night-out, gardaí said.
'Will that be three penalty points or three Hail Marys?' - a joke Garda Eric O'Sullivan will no doubt hear more often, now that his career is taking a dramatic turn.
A former garda who withdrew two personal injury claims after she was filmed lifting 40kg weights in a gym has become the first Irish female in history to compete in the Olympia bodybuilding competition in Nevada, US.
Labour TD Alan Kelly challenged Taoiseach Micheál Martin by revealing that the guns related to a case had been provided by An Garda Síochana, raising serious accountability concerns.
"In a very violent situation, we need to make sure that we're not suffering members being injured, as opposed to having the vehicles and the equipment, including water cannons, which can probably deal with very violent disorder. So that's what they're there for."
