Outrage over gardaí joking about rape

A RANGE of rape crisis groups, women’s organisations and human rights bodies have reacted with outrage at recordings of gardaí joking about raping a woman.

The gardaí’s comments related to two young women they arrested last Thursday after they staged a protest over Shell’s Corrib gas pipeline at Aughoose, Co Mayo.

The state’s independent police watchdog, the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (GSOC), has set up a special investigation, known as a public interest inquiry, into the matter.