Middle-ranking gardaí are seeking advice from their solicitors on the prospect of taking legal action against Government plans to push ahead with proposals denying gardaí the right to strike.

Very few organisations rely on public support like a police force; credibility is a core currency. 

The cultural malaise that has been exposed in recent years infects all ranks, writes Michael Clifford, columnist of the year.

Gardaí are left traumatised from attending fatal traffic accidents, stabbings and shootings and should be required to attend counselling, mid-ranking gardaí have recommended to Garda HQ.

Children of gardaí have been approached on a football pitch and told their father is a “scumbag” for policing a protest after being identified via social media, a Garda conference has heard.

A “fundamental wrong” was done to motorists who were incorrectly convicted for not paying their fixed charge notices, according to the head of the organisation representing supervisory gardaí.

LATEST: Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald has admitted that it will take time for gardaí to feel confident acting as whistleblowers.

The association representing middle ranking Gardaí is accusing the Government of a lack of transparency.

Mid-ranking gardaí have voted overwhelmingly in favour of new pay proposals.

Garda sergeants and inspectors will begin voting today on the Labour Court proposals that averted their strike action earlier this month.

The group representing middle-ranking Gardaí says it could turn itself into a fully fledged union.

The Tánaiste has urged both garda associations to suspend tomorrow's planned strike - while the Labour Court draws up proposals.

Tonight has seen another breakthrough in the Garda dispute.

Garda Sergeants and Inspectors say their industrial action planned for Friday will go ahead.

The AGSI says it is up to the Garda Commissioner to organise emergency cover for next month’s garda strikes.

Gardaí would panic and “run around like headless chickens” if there was a terrorist attack, a Garda conference was told yesterday.

Gardaí have been “very successful” in tackling organised crime following the gangland murder of David Byrne at the Regency Hotel, the head of the new Policing Authority has said.

Mid-ranking gardaí will risk breaking the law by considering strike action in a serious ratcheting up of their industrial relations dispute.

Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan yesterday refused to be drawn on threatened industrial action by mid-ranking officers.

A criminal has threatened a pregnant garda that he will “rape her and her unborn child”.

Latest:The Garda Commissioner has refused to comment on possible garda strikes at their annual conference in Co. Mayo.

The body representing garda sergeants and inspectors says the announcement of a new Armed Support Unit for Dublin is misleading.

Morale among gardaí is very low according to members of the Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors.

Garda sergeants and inspectors are set to refuse to work an extra 30 hours a year from January 1.

Criticism that paints every garda as bad “is just wrong and must be rejected”, Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald has said.

Middle-ranking gardaí have warned Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald that while the Garda system may survive with “sticking plasters”, the men and women of the force may not.

The President of the AGSI said today that the latest round of garda recruitment will do little to ease pressures on the front line.

Frontline supervisors have called for more gardaí to be armed to tackle organised crime.

Middle-ranking gardaí have urged Garda chief Nóirín O’Sullivan to speak out about the staff shortage in the force before a garda is “seriously injured or worse”.

The President of the AGSI has launched a stinging attack on the Garda Commissioner, saying she’s treating officers with disdain.

Relations between middle-ranking gardaí and Noirín O’Sullivan have chilled as she prepares to give her first speech as Garda Commissioner to an association annual conference later today.

The head of the AGSI says the public would not raise an eyebrow if Gardaí were given a pay rise.

More than 900 gardaí have responded to Interim Commissioner Noirín O’Sullivan’s call for reform suggestions in the wake of recent scandals.

Mid-ranking gardaí have called for a review of road fatalities to establish if there is a connection between a rise in deaths and cuts in the Garda traffic corps.