A Polish truck driver has been charged with the murder of a Slovakian father of two found with multiple head injuries at a popular Cork truck stop.more
Interpol and Europol are hunting four members of an East European gang that stole 5,000 euro from a 73-year-old woman minutes after she had taken the cash from a bank to pay for her brother's funeral expenses.
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A friend of the Polish man hacked to death in Cork has revealed the family were not allowed see his body because his injuries were too severe. Denis Lucey told how the community in Ballincollig cannot understand why Mikolaj Wilk died in such horror circumstances.more
Gardaí investigating the murder of a Polish man in Co Cork earlier this month have sent details of a gun found in a car used by his killers to a number of foreign police forces in the hope that it may assist them in identifying his killers.more
The scourge of opium-based drugs and cocaine are a bigger global threat to public health and law enforcement than ever before, according to the latest World Drug Report, released on Tuesday by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).more
Almost 200 illegal immigrants have been deported or removed from the country as a result of a nationwide Garda operation into suspected "marriages of convenience" and fraud. In the latest phase of the operation, codenamed Vantage, officers from the Garda national immigration bureau arrested 13 suspects following a series of searches in three counties.more
The report into the deaths of hundreds of patients at Gosport War Memorial Hospital after they were given dangerous doses of painkillers for no medical reason leads several papers. The Guardian says their families have pledged to continue their fight for criminal prosecutions.more
The wife of machete murder victim Mikolaj Wilk is out of hospital and "recovering well" from her injuries. It's understood Elzbieta Wilk - who sustained serious injuries after she and her husband were attacked at their home in Co Cork - was discharged from hospital on Saturday.more
In a corruption case that has shaken Spain's royal family, Inaki Urdangarin, the husband of Princess Cristina, has been told he has five days to report to a prison to start his sentence.more
Shooting broke out at an all-night art festival in Trenton, New Jersey early on Sunday, sending people stampeding from the scene and leaving one suspect dead and 20 people injured, a local prosecutor said.more
A woman reportedly shouting "Allahu Akbar" has attacked and injured two people at a supermarket in La Seyne-sur-Mer, southeastern France. She has been taken into custody and is being checked for terrorist links.more
A 39-year-old nurse sentenced to life in prison for murdering her mother on Christmas Eve has lost an appeal against her conviction. Greta Dudko admitted killing 55-year-old Anna Butautiene by banging her head against a wall and hitting her over her head with a glass bottle. The Polish native died of blunt force trauma to her head in the home they shared at Station Court Hall, Clonsilla in Dublin.more
A number of seizures were made by Revenue officers at Irish ports yesterday, with a sum of cash, alcohol and cigarettes seized. At Rosslare, officers seized 17,000 in cash after stopping and searching a van that had arrived from Cherbourg.more
