Tue, 13 Oct, 2020
Wed, 15 Apr, 2020
More than 40 gardaí and eight support crew members have cycled 280km from Dublin to Cork to raise funds for sick children and their families.
Fri, 02 Aug, 2019
Gardaí in Co Galway are investigating the alleged sexual assault of a young woman over the bank holiday weekend.
Tue, 07 May, 2019
An Garda Síochána has advised statutory, voluntary and community organisations that work with children and vulnerable people of the need, to be compliant with vetting legislation.
A senior officer in An Garda Síochána is under investigation for suspected abuse of public office through involvement in an alleged malicious suspension of a member of the force.
Fri, 04 Jan, 2019
Garda chief must face challenges head on Drew Harris’s Christmas got off to a bad start. On December 19 the Garda commissioner received notification that one of his senior officers was to be the subject of a criminal investigation.
In December 2017 Member A was attending a Christmas party for his Garda station. At around 3.30am he left the bar heading for his hotel bedroom. While crossing the lobby there was a verbal exchange between himself and two civilians, a man and woman.
A driver has been arrested on suspicion of drink-driving after being pulled over by gardaí in Newtownmountkennedy, Co Wicklow.
Tue, 01 Jan, 2019
A Garda support service set up two-and-a-half years ago has seen a significant jump in officers seeking help.
Mon, 31 Dec, 2018
It is incredible and a little too Banana Republic that the State’s statisticians feel the need to attach a health warning to new crime figures because they are uncertain of the nature of the data supplied to them by An Garda Síochána yet that is the case.
Fri, 21 Dec, 2018
Mr MacLochlainn was killed during an attempted armed robbery of a Securicor van in Ashford, Co Wicklow in May 1998.
Thu, 20 Dec, 2018
Having gardaí respond appropriately to intellectually disabled complainants is a major factor in shaping their experience of the criminal justice system, writes Alan Cusack
Wed, 19 Dec, 2018
Transgender people have far lower levels of trust in gardaí when compared to the general public, a study has found.
Thu, 13 Dec, 2018
The EU’s top court has ruled that the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) has legal powers to make a finding that Irish legislation on a maximum age limit for new gardaí may not be compatible with EU law.
Wed, 05 Dec, 2018
91% of people have a mid to high level of trust in An Garda Síochána, according to a new survey.
Tue, 27 Nov, 2018
The Commissioner of An Garda Siochána, Drew Harris, today announced that he has cut discretionary and administrative overtime across the force.
Thu, 20 Sep, 2018
Outcomes of previous blueprints have never matched the ambition. Major upheaval, both internally and external to the force, will be required, writes Michael Clifford.
Wed, 19 Sep, 2018
Crime detection rates have fallen for the second year in a row, according to two new reports issued by the Policing Authority today.
Wed, 08 Aug, 2018
Arabic videos used in the most recent Garda recruitment drive were viewed more than 10,000 times — the most popular foreign language version of the campaign.
Wed, 04 Jul, 2018
Archbishop Martin, the GAA, An Garda Síochána, the HSE, and Donald Trump. There’s a bunch that have nothing in common, you’d be thinking. Except maybe one thing — an inability to say sorry.
Tue, 03 Jul, 2018
Drew Harris, the deputy chief constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland who was named as the next Garda commissioner yesterday, will know that his two immediate predecessors’ careers came to an end in a way that made Enoch Powell’s famous line about politics relevant to policing.
Wed, 27 Jun, 2018
The revelation that just over 2,300 gardaí have been trained to drive with sirens and flashing blue lights in the past six years has been described as “shocking” and a “disservice to the general public”.
Tue, 26 Jun, 2018
The planned supervised injecting centre is a “specific” public health measure being taken to tackle Ireland’s very high drug mortality rate, the Government says.
Fri, 08 Jun, 2018
Gardaí have used private email accounts to send and receive messages relating to their work, and the force has no record of these correspondences, an Oireachtas committee has heard.
Fri, 01 Jun, 2018
There was “very little documentation” provided to justify continuing a multimillion-euro contract for the provision of IT services to An Garda Síochána, the Public Accounts Committee heard yesterday.
The credibility of An Garda Síochána is at an all-time low. The morale of the force reflects this.
Wed, 30 May, 2018
An Garda Síochána is supporting the forthcoming supervised injecting centre not just because it’s Government policy but because it is the “right thing to do”, Dublin’s police chief says.
Wed, 09 May, 2018
The Garda representative association say attacks on their members are becoming more and more common.
Tue, 01 May, 2018
An Garda Siochána has just 24 hours to confirm it is tax compliant to the Dáil’s Public Accounts Committee amid an ongoing Revenue examination of its accounts in response to the Garda College financial scandal.
Fri, 30 Mar, 2018
Visible community policing, supporting victims of crime, and better training for gardaí are among the key recommendations made to the Policing Commission by the public and organisations.
The Policing Authority has told An Garda Síochána to carry out “further work” on its homicide data after the force claimed that issues had been fixed.
Fri, 02 Feb, 2018
An Garda Síochána was paid more than €1.1m to police 10 of the country’s biggest events last year — with Electric Picnic topping the charts, figures reveal.
Former justice minister Frances Fitzgerald received a hard copy of an email which detailed the legal strategy being taken by An Garda Síochána against whistleblower Sgt Maurice McCabe, the Disclosures Tribunal has heard.
Wed, 31 Jan, 2018
n recent days it has emerged, through the Charleton inquiry disinterring, that former Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan wrote to former justice minister Frances Fitzgerald suggesting a form of words, an all-for-one-and-one-for-all valediction that she should use in a Dáil statement to underline her support for An Garda Síochána and its senior officer.
Tue, 16 Jan, 2018
Security correspondent Cormac O’Keeffe reflects on the revelations that damaged the reputation of Ireland’s policing and justice system during 2017
Mon, 01 Jan, 2018
Labour TD for Tipperary Alan Kelly has formally asked the Minister for Justice if his phone has ever been bugged by An Garda Síochána or if his communications have ever been intercepted by the gardaí.
Thu, 14 Dec, 2017
A Cork Garda who was shot at multiple times by a gunman after stopping his van at a checkpoint, said she was “honoured” to receive a Silver Scott Medal for “exceptional courage and bravery” after she tried to disarm the man, before he took his own life.
Sat, 09 Dec, 2017
A man seeking the return of property from the State accused the gardaí of not giving a shit and he claimed the judge was working for the prosecution and the reporter covering the case was backing the guards.
The widow of hero garda Tony Golden, who was shot dead two years ago while trying to protect a woman from her abusive partner, has accepted a medal for bravery on his behalf.
A member of An Garda Síochána is still out of work as a result of the injuries she sustained when she was allegedly punched twice in the face.
Fri, 08 Dec, 2017
Latest : The meeting between Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and Micheál Martin has come to an end with no new developments tonight.
Mon, 27 Nov, 2017
The Government is due to initiate the process to select a Garda commissioner in December — contrary to calls from the Policing Commission that the process should wait until it reports next September.
Sat, 04 Nov, 2017
Gardaí are appealing to people who were in relationships with members of a local IRA gang behind the savage murder of Paul Quinn 10 years ago to finally come forward.
Sat, 21 Oct, 2017
An Garda Síochána inaccurately recorded 6.4 million breath tests at one stage, it has been revealed.
Wed, 04 Oct, 2017
The Policing Authority said it has expressed its concern on “numerous occasions” at the continuing failure of An Garda Síochána to supply the authority with its review of homicide figures.
Sat, 09 Sep, 2017
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 public’s faith in the management of An Garda Síochána has taken a battering, with the succession of controversies since the start of the year.
Gardaí in Cork earn the least amount of overtime pay in the entire country.
Thu, 03 Aug, 2017
A counter-terrorist attack training exercise, with mass casualties, has been carried out by An Garda Síochána.
Sat, 15 Jul, 2017
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