First female gardaí look back on 50 years

AS advertisements for a life in the police force go, they don’t come much better.

Yesterday, 11 of the 12 women (the other could not make it due to prior a engagement) who were the first female recruits into the Garda Síochána sat in the front row at Garda HQ, glorying in the 50th anniversary of the day they first passed through the same gates and made a piece of history.

They were joined by 22 of their male colleagues from that year, and nostalgia was in the air.