Gardaí detected a driver had also committed a litany of motoring offences.

Gardai say that the post-mortem examinations has been carried out on both bodies,

'We have to keep banging on the table - with your support - to get additional resources allocated to us.'

Over €600,000 worth of drugs has been seized in Cavan and Monaghan over the past three weeks.

Everyone including Drew Harris agreed "learnings had to be taken away" from the Dublin situation because there were "shortcomings".

Roslea man appeared at Cavan District Court yesterday where he was sentenced to a total of eight months in prison.

Opportunistic burglars will take advantage of the dark evenings.