Senior gardaí insist station closures will not mean cut in service

Senior gardaí are insisting the public will get the same level of service despite plans to disband two Garda districts in Co Cork.

Garda management will host public information meetings ahead of the November closures of the Cobh and Kanturk districts which are being axed as part of a countrywide rationalisation plan.

The Mallow Garda District will subsume most of the Kanturk Garda District and will become one of the largest garda districts in rural Ireland.