We will not work with reserve, vows GRA

DESPITE warnings from the Justice Minister Michael McDowell that they could face the sack, the country’s 9,500 rank-and-file gardaí say they will not cooperate with people joining the Reserve Force.

“Non co-operation is going to be just that. We will not work with these people. We will be polite with them, but we will we will not have anything in a duty-way to do with them,” outgoing GRA president Dermot O’Donnell said yesterday.

He added that his organisation was ready to deal with the threat that some of its members could be suspended, or even dismissed, as a result.