The 42-year-old Dubliner is suspected of using the media, law and internet to draw attention away from his role in a gang feud

Government faces criticism for easing restrictions as some 4m return to work

Irish head of EU anti-smuggling agency warns of unprecedented shipments

Sophisticated activity saw Irish travel documents forged for distribution across Europe

Two South-American men detained as part of the operation while third man escaped

Former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont briefly detained in Belgium

This victory was the third fastest of her career and the 14th quickest of all time

‘Two men were trading punches in a full fist fight in the aisle’

About 45,000 take to the streets of Spain’s capital ahead of trial of separatist leaders

ID card found on human remains in Irish waters matches missing man’s name

Police believe victim was beaten to death

Twelve independence leaders to be tried by Spanish supreme court over events in 2017

Interview: Exiled Catalan leader speaks on the impending trial of separatists and Brexit

Videos and pictures being openly shared with some groups including up to 256 people, researchers find

Drugs hidden in pineapples were due to be loaded on a cargo ship destined for Cork

Irish, British, Moroccan and Spanish nationals held after huge drug seizure

Incident follows warnings over country’s ability to cope with rising migration numbers

Magnitsky campaigner briefly detained on Russian warrant

Authorities believe Irishmen arrested in Malaga were working for Kinahan off-shoot

Spanish police found herbal cannabis hidden among crates of lettuce near Malaga

Carles Puigdemont’s arrest has galvanised a movement that had lost momentum

Three-year investigation reveals efforts to smuggling mostly Chinese migrants into UK and Republic

Cash, vehicles and jewellery seized as 38 properties across four counties searched

‘You have to take sides and that makes more and more people go to the extremes’

This weekend will mark a fateful moment in Spain’s worst constitutional crisis since the attempted coup d’état in 1981

Rajoy to hold Saturday cabinet meeting after deadline to abandon independence passes

‘We are not criminals, we’re not crazy, we’re not coupmongers ... we are normal people and we want to vote’

Nor is it easy to put trust in Catalan first minister Carles Puigdemont

Puigdemont says Spanish police should leave region as unions plan strike

Carles Puigdemont insists independence vote was binding and ‘we have to apply it’

Many on the board believed it was wrong to play on the day of the Catalan referendum

Referendum banned by Madrid throws Spain into worst constitutional crisis in decades

Protesters vent anger at Madrid as state police amass in region ahead of referendum

October 1st independence vote to go ahead, says Puigdemont, after Spanish police raid

Criminal organisation was selling drugs to tourists in nightclubs in Majorca party town

Manhunt for suspected driver in attack on Las Ramblas that killed 13 and injured 130

Security services search for younger brother of man arrested on suspicion of hiring van

Wexford man and family locked into Barcelona museum for two hours during attack

Suspect had lived in Marseilles but later moved to Catalonia

‘There is a lot of fear. People don’t know what is going on,’ says Irish citizen