District Court summonses plummet

District Court summonses have plummeted in the first quarter of this year due to new directives to gardaí.

While the Garda Representative Association reject any kind of ‘blue ink flu’, unnamed Garda sources are attributing the fall to an “easy on the pedal” approach to offenders.

Summonses for District Court cases, a huge source of revenue, have dropped from 101,002 last year to 78,578 for the first three months of this year.