It will take a long time to rebuild public trust in gardaí after the damning Morris Report, the county’s largest garda union admitted today.

JUSTICE MINISTER Michael McDowell’s plan to introduce café bar licences is set to trigger the biggest backbench revolt in eight years of coalition government.

THE first official reaction of grassroots gardaí to the web of lies, cover-ups and negligence exposed by the Morris Report on the Donegal division brings home forcefully its shattering impact on the morale of the force.

GARDA morale has been shattered by the interim Morris Report into allegations of misconduct in the Donegal division, a garda association has said.

A DISGRACED senior garda officer, found to have set up hoax explosive finds in Co Donegal, told the Morris Tribunal he did not accept the findings of its first report.