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A man has been warned to keep his pooch under control after gardai received complaints it has been running around a housing estate by itself during the day and jumping on local children.

A mother and son in Kinnegad have been convicted of public order offences relating to an incident during which gardaí were threatened and allegedly reported for trying to kill someone.

Gardai investigating the shocking tiger kidnapping in the city this week have said that although they have interviewed the Ronan family they are no closer to capturing the raiders that were involved in the violent attack.

In the summer of 1940, following the fall of France to the Germans, thousands of young men enlisted in the Irish Army to defend their land against aggression, training at the Curragh and then being deployed to military barracks around the country.

A tragic accident on the Mayo-Galway border on Tuesday night claimed the lives of four young women.

A 34-year-old bakery worker from Ballina has claimed before the High Court that his arm was broken when gardaí used excessive force to arrest and handcuff him. The incident happened during a disturbance outside a nightclub in which, he alleges, he was not involved, the Irish Times reported this week.

Local TD Denis Naughten has welcomed the commitment by the Gardai to establish new protocols to improve policing in South Roscommon in conjunction with local Garda stations.

An English man who urinated on an unmarked patrol car, threatened to cut the throats of garda officers and then attempted to bite one of them, was given a chance in court this week to pay €350 to charity.

Fine Gael MEP Jim Higgins has welcomed the decision by the Garda Commissioner to replace the two retired members of the force who carried out immigration duties at Ireland West Airport Knock. In his letter to Mr Higgins, the chief superintendent personal assistant to the Garda Commissioner states “in light of the retirement of two members of the Immigration Unit at Ireland West Airport on April 20 and May 8 2009, the Divisional Officer, in consultation with Detective Chief Superintendent Garda National Immigration Bureau and senior management at Ireland West Airport, conducted an extensive examination of resource deployment. The outcome of this process has led the Divisional Officer to advertise two new positions at the Immigration Unit with interviews for same scheduled for mid-November 2009.

A man who, along with an armed gang, barged his way into a house and threatened its occupants with a machete has been sentenced to eight years in prison with the final three years suspended.