GRA plans ballot despite threat of prosecution

THE Garda Representative Association (GRA) is to go ahead with plans for a ballot for industrial action despite a direct warning from Commissioner Fachtna Murphy that by doing so they face criminal prosecution.

Late yesterday afternoon, Garda Commissioner Murphy and Assistant Commissioner Fintan Fanning met with the GRA’s president, Michael O’Boyce, and general secretary PJ Stone.

At the meeting, Commissioner Murphy set out his “grave concerns” about the proposed GRA ballot, which contravenes the Garda Síochána Act 2005.