Garda station ‘no better than sweatshop’

THE organisation representing the country’s rank-and-file gardaí has described conditions at a Garda station in Co Cork “as no better than a Third World sweatshop factory”.

The group is preparing to take legal action to have the Victorian-era station in Glanmire shut down.

The vice-president of the Garda Representative Association (GRA), John Parker, said senior members of his organisation visited the Glanmire station a week ago and were “appalled by what they saw”.