The Policing Authority is ordering a review of the Garda adult caution scheme, in which adults are given a caution, rather than prosecuted in the courts, for less serious crimes.

THE latest report into the Garda breath-test scandal is shocking but not surprising.

The sooner we stop talking palaver about the decent men and women in the force the better. writes Gerard Howlin.

As the controversy over the recording of breath tests rumbles on, the gardaí, Department of Justice, and the Medical Bureau of Road Safety (MBRS), each outlined the timeline of events: