The move has been criticised by a Coast Guard director as 'nannyism'.

In this decade for commemorating events of a century ago there has been much media attention for the high-profile deaths of men in uniform at Soloheadbeg and the innocents of Bloody Sunday, but little mention of hundreds of other civilian casualties ...

Some gardaí even gave the dance routine an Irish twist, with a bit of damhsa Éireannach thrown in