Actions of gardaí would have ‘disgusted’ Collins

MICHAEL COLLINS would have been “disgusted” at the manner in which the Garda Síochána’s reputation has been sullied by the criminal behaviour of certain gardaí in Donegal, Fine Gael Senator and MEP Jim Higgins said yesterday.

Giving the keynote oration at Béal na mBláth at the annual Michael Collins Commemoration, Mr Higgins said: “Under Collins the perpetrators certainly would not have been allowed to retire with gratuities and full pension rights or transferred on active duty with full pay - he would have booted them unceremoniously from the force.”

Michael Collins would also have frowned on the fact that the natural gas find off the Mayo coast is being given away to a foreign company for literally nothing - no royalties, a derisory tax rate and massive write offs, Mr Higgins added.