Row over gardaí renting hotel space

GARDA chiefs were last night accused of diverting attention from a chronic accommodation shortage in a row about renting rooms at a well-known hotel complex.

The force has hired space in the Plaza complex in Tallaght, south Dublin, which houses a hotel, nightclub, casino and several bars, because of an overflow at the nearby Tallaght Garda Station.

But after a senior opposition politician branded the arrangement a disgrace, Garda bosses moved to dismiss any suggestion that the force was using hotel rooms.