Rugby hero plays a starring role in community policing

Ireland rugby Grand Slam hero Niamh Briggs has been hailed for helping steer children living in two of Limerick’s troubled estates away from crime and into sport.

Niamh, 28, is a community Garda based at Roxboro Rd station. Twice a week, she takes up to 25 boys, aged from eight to 15, from Ballinacurra Weston and Southill, to Garryowen rugby club where they train at rugby and soccer.

It emerged yesterday she does this extra night work in her own time, and without any extra pay.