Look after our friends in the thin blue line

This week’s column is a few paragraphs of praise and appreciation for the men and women who put on their Garda uniforms every morning in rural Ireland.
Look after our friends in the thin blue line

It is triggered by the truly tragic death above in Donegal earlier this month of a young Garda sergeant, totally innocent of any wrongdoing in a matter being investigated by Garda authorities, who cracked under the strain of his ordeal, and took his own life in Ballyshannon Garda Station.

It is poignant that he would still be alive today if he had received a phone call from his investigators, telling him no evidence had been found against him.

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