Vera Hutch tells Thomas McConnell’s sentencing hearing her son was ‘senselessly and cruelly taken’ in May 2016 shooting

One of the first tasks of the new government will be how to persuade the incoming Trump administration that Ireland is not a soft touch

Far-right-inspired violence and continued sluggish efforts to grow the Garda force dominated Harris’s final full year in charge

Jack Kavanagh admitted helping Kinahan gang member in scheme where guns stashed and National Crime Agency told of location

Peter ‘Peader’ Keating (43), convicted of directing serious crime in Dublin during Kinahan-Hutch feud, faces fresh sanction from Old Bailey, alongside Jack Kavanagh (24)

Garda Commissioner says force will pursue Kinahan cartel members if they attempt to flee to Russia

In Dublin’s north inner city support for the veteran criminal known as the Monk shows how ‘disaffected’ locals are

UK-led Operation Destabilise investigation confirms Irish gang’s links to organised crime in Russia

Det Supt Colm Fox was found dead at Ballymun Garda station while Patrick Hutch was on trial for the February 2016 murder of Kinahan crime group associate David Byrne

Saggart house to be auctioned in December with minimum opening bid of €550,000

The courage of the authors – and crime journalists generally – who venture into this dangerous area without a badge or warrant card needs to be recognised

Jack Kavanagh (24) pleaded guilty to two charges of conspiracy to possess a firearm

Latest consignment, of €3 million, returned to exchequer by Garda National Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau, on a par with some annual returns by Criminal Assets Bureau

Sean McGovern (38) is first Kinahan cartel figure arrested in Dubai, although extradition does not fall under recently signed treaty

With senior figures jailed and Dubai’s status as a safe haven for Irish criminals ‘in tatters’, is the net closing on the cartel?

Hutch (61) detained on Lanzarote and his Clontarf home searched as part of Spanish police inquiry

Gangland leader is focus of Spanish Guardia Civil investigation into international money laundering

Dublin criminal Thomas ‘Bomber’ Kavanagh’s barrister suggested he had ‘put himself at risk’

Garda sources say Thomas ‘Bomber’ Kavanagh, who will be 67 on release from prison, will face uphill battle if wishing to return to crime

Kinahan cartel member seemed relaxed by the end of his sentencing hearing at the Old Bailey