Garda body warns justice system is failing society

THE justice system “is breaking down” and is now failing society, rank and file gardaí have claimed.

Garda representatives have said releasing prisoners early to deal with an overcrowding crisis was “undermining” the work of gardaí and putting the community at risk.

In an editorial in the Garda Review, general secretary of the Garda Representative Association (GRA) PJ Stone said: “The system of justice is breaking down.”