Gardaí are monitoring a number of individuals in the east Limerick riverside village in an effort to quell rising tensions.

Garda Kevin Flatley died in the line of duty on Sunday afternoon in Dublin

O’Reilly claims that the leather holsters, made and supplied by an equine saddlery in Kildare, may have been responsible for the serious accidental self-wounding of a garda on protection duty at the residence of the Israeli Ambassador in Dublin on 11th June, 2020.

A man was arrested as armed gardaí seized several petrol bombs in north Dublin on Monday

The incident unfolded at a house in the Heatherhill housing estate, Graiguecullen, on the Laois/Carlow town border at around 1pm on Wednesday

Sentencing the man on Tuesday, Mr Justice Kerida Naidoo said the man had used “sadistic and humiliating violence” against his wife and that the offences represented a “significant breach of trust."

There was an armed Garda presence outside the court as the men arrived to be charged with conspiracy