Conor Lally

Conor Lally

Security & Crime Editor

Conor Lally is Security and Crime Editor of The Irish Times.

Waterford murders: Someone else’s €20k drug debt behind attack, family member believes

No arrests have been made in first wave of ‘intense’ searches

Drug-related intimidation: why petrol bomb attacks are becoming more common

Criminal gangs believe arson is less likely than a shooting to draw attention of Garda’s national units

Waterford family’s deaths in petrol bomb attack linked to local drugs gang

Philip and Kim English killed in family home alongside two children, Callum (12) and Jayden (8), with two others in critical condition

Gardaí investigate as four people die in fire at house in Waterford city

Possibility the house was deliberately targeted in an arson attack is one line of inquiry

Garda overtime bill for Russian embassy security to exceed €1m

Overall cost of protecting Moscow’s south Dublin mission since Ukraine invasion now several million euro

Jim O’Callaghan dismisses claims of Garda ‘resignation crisis’

Jim O’Callaghan and Garda Representative Association clash over recruitment and retention of Garda members

Man (68) suspected of raping woman twice in her south Dublin home in 2003 is charged

Accused suspected of rape, false imprisonment and burglary after posing as a TV technician

‘It is traumatic for the parents’: How Irish drug gangs are using teenagers’ addresses in operations

Cannabis grow houses that once boomed in Ireland have become a smaller part of the trade

Cannabis now as profitable as cocaine as supply from legal markets surges

Cannabis herb trade from US, Canada and Thailand is now so significant that economics of Irish drugs market have shifted

Gardaí trying to track whereabouts of Christy Kinahan snr

Cartel founder (69) was told to leave Dubai by September 29th after change of attitude by authorities

Gardaí await technical and postmortem results on woman who died after falling from balcony

Officers say they still want to hear from witnesses who were in Belmayne, north Dublin, at the time

Seven-year campaign against Galway family leads to first arrest as woman (40s) detained

Harassment suspect detained by gardaí, with search carried out and items taken for examination

Mother who died in Dublin balcony fall named locally

Family prepare funeral arrangements for Kathleen Carey (30s) weeks after burying sister

Annual revenue for GoSafe speed camera operator surges towards €30m

Two cameras, in Co Mayo and Co Kilkenny, were raising €40,000 and €32,000 respectively in speeding fines per week, report shows

Drug and gun crime rates reach highest in a decade, CSO finds

Fatal shootings at unprecedented lows as latest crime trends show sexual offences falling, though other crime types up

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