Two of the top three positions in the Garda’s specialist agency combating fraud are now vacant.

A garda has been given a one-month suspended sentence for assaulting a school teacher in the 2002 May Day "Reclaim the Streets" demonstration, in Dublin city centre.

A garda inspector who was on duty at the "Reclaim the Streets" demonstration on May 6, 2002, told a jury he ordered gardaí to put their batons away when he saw them being used on the crowd.