Garda brand is tainted — it’s time to start again

The time has come to put an end to An Garda Síochána. The brand is now so battered, bruised and tarnished, public confidence in it has been so irreparably damaged that nothing short of a rebrand is required.

The findings of the force’s internal report this week were shocking on many levels, but what was most shocking was the lack of outrage and anger from within Government.

“We have become totally anaesthetised to all these Garda scandals. The finding of another half a million fake tests didn’t shock me,” said one senior Cabinet minister.