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

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

Garda Commissioner Noirin O’Sullivan has said that investigations are under way into the harassment of gardaí on social media after middle-ranking officers said that colleagues were being targeted by some anti-water charge protestors.

The required reading list for the new batch of garda recruits — the first trainees in five years — might be getting a late edition.

French authorities have asked for further Irish assistance into their own investigation into the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier, Justice Minister Alan Shatter has revealed.

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.

Middle ranking Gardaí will discuss calls for more robust protection for whistleblowers at their annual conference in Co Kerry.

Four garda sergeants who walked out of the AGSI conference during addresses by by the Garda Commissioner and Justice Minister, have said they did not mean any offence.

The Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors has said it will stand by its members after the Garda Commissioner threatened disciplinary action against four gardaí who

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A former Justice Minister has branded comments made at the Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors conference in Sligo yesterday, about garda Adrian Donohoe's death, as "insensitive".

The Garda Commissioner, Martin Callinan, is warning that the force cannot be immune from the current financial environment or the reductions in public spending.

A spokesman for the Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors (ASGI) has said that his organisation finds it "absolutely disgusting that the Government would treat us the way they are".

The Justice Minister has been greeted with a silent protest at the Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors annual conference in Sligo.

Politics has to be taken out of policing to protect it from Government interference, middle-ranking gardaí have said.

A new policing shift system which promises to have more gardaí on at busier times is set to start in four weeks’ time.

MIDDLE-RANKING gardaí have slammed the continuing failure to provide formal mental health expertise to gardaí dealing with barricade incidents.

NEW laws compelling convicted sex offenders to provide DNA and fingerprint samples to gardaí on release are among a range of motions to be debated at the AGSI conference.

THE association representing middle-ranking gardaí has adopted a policy calling for a permanent armed garda presence on the streets.

A TOP Garda representative has accused Justice Minister Dermot Ahern of bleeding gardaí dry with “savage” pay cuts, while protecting higher paid civil servants.

THE Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors (AGSI) has said the lack of proper social worker cover in Cork city was “grossly unfair and damaging to vulnerable young people”.

CHILDREN living in Limerick’s toughest estates will get sucked into vicious cycles of violence and crime unless they receive help under the city’s regeneration scheme, warned its chief architect yesterday.

THE annual conference of the Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors (AGSI) will this week be discussing a call for a “national emergency” to be declared in response to gangland violence.

THE row over the Garda Reserve reached new heights yesterday after rank-and-file gardaí axed Justice Minister Michael McDowell from their forthcoming annual conference.

Garda sergeants and inspectors will vote on the proposed Garda Reserve at their annual conference.

PEOPLE in south Kerry cannot contact local gardaí because the ‘green man’ radio link system used in rural stations hasn’t worked for the last four years, gardaí said yesterday.

VICTIMS of crime, such as the sisters and fiancé of murdered Belfast man Robert McCartney, should no longer be treated as bystanders, gardaí said yesterday.

Justice Minister Michael McDowell said today that he would listen to debate on calls for information on convicted paedophiles to be made available to the public.

ELECTRONIC tagging should be used to track dangerous criminals such as sex offenders, a garda representative said yesterday.