TD calls for end to upper age limit for garda recruits

THE age limit to join the gardaí should be abolished to create a more experienced force, Fianna Fáil TD Jim Glennon said yesterday.

TD calls for end to upper age limit for garda recruits

Mr Glennon said there was an urgent need to review the ban on recruiting people over the age of 26 following the interim report of the Morris Tribunal.

"The difficulties manifesting themselves in the Morris Tribunal are probably institutional. You have fellows going into the force in their early 20s and they see the way it's done. I don't know if more experienced people would accept it (bad practice) so readily," he said.

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