Garda conference to discuss threat from dangerous drivers

THE threat to gardaí posed by dangerous driving, including joyriding, is to feature prominently at the annual conference of the country’s largest Garda staff association.

With the death of Garda Robert McCallion still fresh in the minds of gardaí, brought to the fore again last February with the sentencing of a teenager in connection with his death, gardaí are eager to increase the safety of members.

Garda McCallion, aged 29, died on April 7 2009 after he was struck by a car while on duty in Letterkenny, Co Donegal, almost two weeks earlier.