The service's annual report for 2024 said this figure is the highest since 2015.

A message from their director of operations said they had done everything in their power to deal with overcrowding in jails as numbers in custody approached 5,000.

In a series of letters, the board’s senior management said they were struggling with “staff retention issues and low morale” due to their workload.

A record number of over 21,800 dwellings are currently being used to accommodate Ukrainian refugees under the Accommodation Recognition Payment (ARP) scheme

14 people who attended the Mothers Against Genocide group protest against the Israeli war in Gaza were arrested after an entrance to Leinster House in Dublin was blocked.

GAA Palestine said it was 'deeply disappointed' with the refusal decision and would 'immediately' appeal.

This week, a jury was sworn in for the case of plaintiff Gerard McCarthy, who alleged that gardaí broke his shoulder on Halloween night almost 17 years ago.

It is understood that the decision was made without any consultation, not only with the Ukrainians onsite, but with the team at the Green Glens Arena

New figures published by the Department of Justice reveal that a daily average of 18 learner drivers had their vehicles taken off the road in 2024 – a total of 6,483.

Of the 35 people removed by charter flight to Nigeria on June 4th, 21 were adult male, nine were adult female and five were children who travelled as part of two family units.

Thirty five people, including five children, were deported on a flight from Dublin to Lagos, Nigeria on Wednesday night

The correspondence was sent in 2024 on a day in May when there were 4,960 people in the custody of the Irish Prison Service (IPS); that number has since risen as high as 5,400.

The children were all part of family groups, gardaí said.

The latest figures show that 1,040 asylum seekers were returned from the Republic to somewhere outside the EU last year

Insolvency practitioners Myles Kirby and Padraic O’Malley have taken High Court proceedings against Colm Wu

The study also found that foreign-born residents had lower incomes and were more likely to suffer poverty.

The department said expenditure was sometimes necessary for executive seats when a deportation officer was immediately returning to Ireland from a long-haul flight without staying at the destination

The bomb killed 29 people, including a woman who was pregnant with twins, in the worst single atrocity in the Troubles in Northern Ireland.

The Department of Justice said during 2024 just 1,200 decisions were being made each month while 1,800 new applications were being made.

New legislation will allow gardaí to attend routine court hearings remotely, the Justice Minister has said.

New figures provided by the Minister for Justice Jim O'Callaghan show that 703 deportation orders have been issued so far in 2025.

Jim O’Callaghan said the flight has landed and the people are ‘back safely in Georgia’.

The protocol, signed up to by 17 agencies, recognises the "undisputed fact that delays in the criminal justice system are detrimental to child victims and child defendants"

Mr O’Callaghan said it was his belief that laws allowing judges to refuse bail where they believe there is a risk that the person would go on to commit another serious offence are being applied.

The IIP scheme allowed non-EU foreign nationals who invested large sums of money in various projects to secure visas

Cahir O'Higgins received €204,747 in legal aid fees during 2024

Documents seen by Breakingnews from the Department of Justice show there was 269 emails to the Department on the proposed bill.

A breakdown of costs between 2022 and 2024 shows expenditure of just over €36,000 on gas network costs.

The decline follows the then Minister for Justice, Helen McEntee, last August imposing higher fines on airlines and ferry companies that allow someone to board or disembark without proper documentation.

The breaches occurred across the department including key areas like international protection, the response to the Ukraine refugee crisis, and in citizenship applications

Justice minister Helen McEntee will outline the enhancements to the searchable database which was first launched last year.

Over 6,000 new Irish citizens, hailing from 140 countries around the world, will be granted citizenship in seven ceremonies being held on Monday and Tuesday.

Dublin would be safer with a Fianna Fail minister for justice, senior party figures have suggested.

Criminal barristers withdrew services on Monday over fee levels for work.

Eve Doherty was jailed for three years in January 2019 for harassing State solicitor Elizabeth Howlin.

The Criminal Bar Association said the system of criminal legal aid in Northern Ireland had reached ‘crisis point’.

Helen McEntee said she is regularly briefed on all security matters.

McGovern is considered second in ranking to cartel leader Daniel Kinahan

Coimisiun na Mean will have the power to impose the penalties which fall under EU regulations.

Coco's Law was named after Nicole 'Coco’ Fox, who died by suicide following years of abuse and harassment online.

So far this year, 126 people have died on Irish roads – one more than over the corresponding period in 2023.

In a briefing, the minister was told so-called voluntary returns offered a “positive experience for both the state and the person being removed” as an alternative to deportation.

New crime figures reveal that gardaí responded to calls to attend the scene of a domestic violence incident on 11,675 occasions during the first three months of this year.