Macroom gardaí defer walkout over station row

GARDAÍ have decided to defer a walkout of a dilapidated district headquarters in mid-Cork after receiving assurances the OPW will build a new station.

The organisation which represents rank-and-file members of the force, the Garda Representative Association (GRA), met with officials from the OPW earlier this week, ahead of the planned walkout at Macroom Garda Station on Tuesday next.

GRA central executive committee member Pat O’Sullivan said OPW officials had promised to place an advertisement in newspapers shortly seeking a greenfield site on which to build a new station.