Some 600,000 pairs of gloves are being distributed to gardaí and a further 400,000 are to follow as part of the State’s response to Covid-19.

Middle ranking gardaí have asked Garda HQ about its plans in the event of the spread of coronavirus among members.

According to Freedom of Information figures, a total of 162 officers missed at least a day because of an attack.

Mr D'Arcy has ignored calls to apologise to gardaí for the controversial comments.

The junior minister said the attack on Kevin Lunney should have been dealt with "sooner and better at that level" by senior gardaí.

“We did have sustained attacks against us, there were a number of incidents that were allowed go unchecked – the incitement to hatred at a public meeting, the posters defaming us and face to face threats.”

The Tax Institute of Ireland has welcomed support offered to Irish businesses and agrees with the Finance Minister's decision to direct resources to sectors most vulnerable to risk of no-deal Brexit.

Frontline gardaí and supervisors have expressed fears that the new restructuring of the organisation will result in less, not more, policing in rural areas.

The Government has backed plans to provide gardaí with body cams.

Garda commissioner Drew Harris has asked to meet Majella Moynihan this week to make a personal apology.

Gardaí used pepper sprays almost 690 times in 2018, official figures reveal.

The Garda Representative Association (GRA) president Jim Mulligan has defended the force’s ‘parading allowance’ saying it improves supervision, brings cohesiveness and greater efficiencies.

Gardaí may be ordered to use smartphones to record incidents with the public as a cut-price alternative to hi-tech body cameras because of cost and information storage concerns.

“Gardaí are weary of hearing about grand ideas that don’t have the money to make them a reality,” GRA president Jim Mulligan has told Minister for Justice Charlie Flanagan.

The armed support unit in Co Louth is “stretched to the limit” as it battles to cover the escalating gang feud in Drogheda, rampaging ATM gangs and patrolling the border as far as Co Cavan.

The lives of public and uniformed gardaí are being put at risk from the firepower of criminal gangs and the New IRA, because Garda armed units are regionally based and can be scores of kilometres from an evolving serious incident.

The issue of violent crime will dominate the annual conference of the Garda Representative Association, which begins in Co Kerry this evening.

But rough streets frequented by prostitutes and dealers provided a potent breeding ground for his underlying talents

A north-inner-city Dublin man has been given 16 years in consecutive sentences by Judge Katherine Delahunt at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for his role in an attempted Securicor cash van heist while he was on bail for having cocaine for sale or supply.

A WOMAN was arrested yesterday in connection with the murder of a man in Co Tipperary.

An accounts assistant who defrauded his employer of over €14,000 to pay for his up-coming wedding has received a two years suspended sentence from Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Gardai have confirmed that the body of a man in his fifties found near Toomevara in Co Tipperary is that of a Kildare man who was reported missing yesterday.