Extra €4m for festive season patrols

MORE gardaí are to be put onto the street over the Christmas period, Justice Minister Michael McDowell announced yesterday.

Mr McDowell said he was authorising an extra €4 million on garda overtime, which would pay for an additional 140,000 garda overtime hours.

The extra money will be spent on uniformed and plain clothes policing between now and the end of the year.

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