Resources plea after garda attack

MINISTER for Justice Dermot Ahern has been called on to ensure gardaí in a Co Cork village are given adequate resources to combat a gang which has burnt the local station twice and thrown a petrol bomb at a garda in a van.

As the gang intensified its efforts to disrupt law and order in Blarney, Deputy Kathleen Lynch (Labour) said it was imperative that as many gardaí as possible were brought into the town to quell “attacks on gardaí and society as a whole”.

Ms Lynch made her comments following the latest attack on a member of the force in the area. A traffic corps Garda in his 30sescaped serious injury after a petrol bomb was thrown into his van shortly after 7pm on Thursday.