Gardaí suffering frequent vicious assaults

Attacks on gardaí are becoming more vicious and more common, according to the association representing frontline staff, which has demanded that the Department of Justice publishes the number of assaults annually.

The Garda Representative Association says the public needs to see how increasingly dangerous the job has become for rank-and-file members of the force.

In 2010, then-GRA president Damien McCarthy launched a billboard campaign which graphically highlighted some of the injuries his members had received during the course of duty.