A senior Garda union today backed calls for an independent public inquiry into the murder of the first officer to die in the Republic during the Troubles.

THE Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors has insisted an ombudsman should have the final say in complaints from officers about their superiors.

The country’s biggest Garda union today hit out at broadcaster Eamon Dunphy over controversial comments he made on his radio show that gardaí were corrupt.