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 Five people have been arrested by Gardaí, from the Tipperary, Limerick and Clare Garda divisions, following investigations into organised crime and burglaries in the Limerick region.
Of those arrested, four are men aged between 19 and 27 years old and one female understood to be just 17 years old. All suspects were detained this morning following a series of searches in the counties of Tipperary and Limerick.
These arrests came about as part of Operation Fiacla, a Garda plan put in place some two years ago, which has proven extremely successful at gathering intelligence on travelling gangs that traverse the motorways around Ireland, carrying out often large scale burglaries.
The five are now understood to be detained separately at Nenagh, Roxboro Road, Newcastle West, Henry Street and Shannon Garda Stations.
Operation Fiacla was instigated initially following a continued period in which burglaries continued to rise significantly, despite a decline in almost all other forms of crime, since the onset of the Irish recession.
 Revenue Commissioners The Revenue Commissioners have yesterday (03/01/2014) become aware of fraudulent emails. Same purport to come from Revenue and seek personal information from taxpayers in connection with supposed tax refunds.
These ‘phishing’ emails may be headed ‘Notice of Tax Return,’ ‘Tax Return for year 2013,’ or ‘Notice of Tax Refund.’
Phishing (Pronounced Fishing) is a scam where bogus emails are sent to people in order to trick them into revealing personal or financial information. If an unwary person follows a link in the email, they will be taken to a fake web page, which will try to trick them into entering personal information such as a PIN, a password, a PPS number or other bank account information. That information may then be used in various ways, e.g. to apply for credit card in the person’s name, or write cheques from their bank account.
Phishing emails may pretend to come from various government departments such as Revenue, Social Welfare, Banks, Credit Card companies and Online Shops. They may contain what appears to be realistic logos and very official sounding text. They may even carry a warning about phishing.
Note: Revenue officials are forbidden to send emails which require their customers to send personal information via email or pop-up windows. Any person therefore who receives such an email which purports to be from a government department like Revenue and suspect that same is fraudulent or a scam should simply delete it the content from their mailbox. Anyone who is currently awaiting a tax refund should now contact their local Revenue Office to check its present status immediately.
Note: Anyone who may have already foolishly provided such personal information in response to these fraudulent emails, should now contact their bank or credit card company immediately.
 Gardai have arrested a man in his 30’s, following a stabbing incident here in Thurles in the early hours of this morning.
The victim, who is believed to be a 22 year-old male, was removed by ambulance to Clonmel Hospital in South Tipperary following this altercation and is now understood to be in a stable condition.
The incident occurred in the early hours of this morning at the entrance to Monakeeba, College Green, Beechwood Grove & Beechwood Lawns housing estates, here in Thurles.
In a follow up operation Gardaí have arrested a male aged in his 30’s and the suspected assailant has been taken to Thurles Garda Station, where he is currently being held under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act 1984.
It is understood that Gardaí during a follow-up search also discovered a knife in the vicinity of the crime scene.
The area remained sealed off between the hours of 4:00am and 10:00am this morning, for a technical and forensic examination.
Thurles Gardaí are now appealing for witnesses with any information regarding this incident to contact Thurles Garda Station Tel: 0504-25100 or the Garda Confidential Line Tel: 1800 66 111.
 New Gardaí are to be now recruited again, on a rolling basis, to assist in maintaining the existing force’s overall strength at 13,000.
Approximately one hundred new recruits are expected to be admitted to the Garda training college in Templemore, Co Tipperary, at intervals of three to four months with the first batch of one hundred to arrive in Templemore next summer, graduating as fully fledged members of the force two years later.
Details of this new recruitment to the Gardaí, which has been dormant since 2009 because of a moratorium on public service numbers, is understood to be officially announced today.
It is understood that more than 32,000 applicants have already expressed an interest in joining the Garda force and same will form the bulk of those competing for the initial one hundred places.
These applications are currently being examined and the Public Appointments Commission will set an initial online test for interested parties in early January 2014. Further assessments will then be carried out and the numbers whittled down before a group is chosen for a full interviewing process.
 Gardaí from the Templemore area have successfully recovered machinery worth thousands of euro, recently stolen approximately three miles from Templetouhy, here in North Tipperary.
Gardaí had been appealing to motorists to keep their eyes peeled for a stolen yellow coloured JCB Fast-Track, latter registration number 04-C-1641, together with a three thousand gallon capacity red ‘Abbey’ tanker, which had a compressor attached and both of which had been removed from an area on the Johnstown road outside of Templetouhy village.
Gardaí now confirm that this machinery has been located, found abandoned some distance from where it was stolen.
While Gardaí continue to investigate, they now believe that the robbery may have come about as a result of mischievous pranks, carried out by a number of youths, observed to have been in the area at the time.
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