GARDA representatives have called for an independent body to monitor any possible health damage associated with their planned digital communication system.

THE Garda Síochána faces serious disruption after Garda representatives directed members to stop using their personal mobile phones for police work.

Under new legislation which came into effect today, gardaí will have to account for all of their actions on duty.

The national executive of the Garda Representative Association (GRA) has said Northern Ireland Chief Constable Hugh Orde’s assertion that the IRA carried out the multi-million euro bank heist in Belfast last month was further proof that the killers of Det Garda Jerry McCabe should not be released under any circumstances.

PRESSURE was mounting on the Government last night to row back on its decision to sanction the release of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe’s killers as part of a deal on the North that may be secured on Wednesday.

The Garda Representative Association has reacted with fury to the Taoiseach's announcement the IRA killers of Garda Gerry McCabe will be released as part of a deal to renew the peace process.

The Garda Representative Association (GRA) is welcoming the decision to increase the upper age for entry to the force to 35.

GAELTACHT Minister Eamon Ó Cuiv has written to Justice Minister Michael McDowell about his plans to drop the Irish language requirement for immigrant recruits to An Garda Síochána.

JUSTICE MINISTER Michael McDowell yesterday published his blueprint to put an extra 1,800 gardaí on the streets.

THE wife of Detective Garda Gerry McCabe consented to the publication of photographs of her dead husband in order to put the subject of his killers’ possible early release to rest.

SOMEONE could be killed in the line of duty because of the crumbling garda radio system, GRA delegates were told yesterday.

A GARDA who was wrongly disciplined for sending a letter to politicians without the permission of his superiors has been reprimanded for sending the same letter to an internal garda journal.