The time has come to put an end to An Garda Síochána. The brand is now so battered, bruised and tarnished, public confidence in it has been so irreparably damaged that nothing short of a rebrand is required.

Up to a fifth of all phantom breath tests recorded by gardaí over an eight-year period were “inflated” by members, an internal Garda examination suggests.

GARDAÍ are to send a file to the DPP in connection with the first gangland murder of this year.