GSOC to pay legal costs for gardaí

The Garda watchdog has been criticised for wasting taxpayers’ money after it emerged it is now offering to pay the High Court expenses of two gardaí it tried to discipline, even after a lower court ruled they acted properly.

The gardaí had used pepper spray to subdue a violent youth.

The Garda Siochána Ombudsman Commission, initially instigated a case against the two Cork City-based gardaí for using pepper spray against the youth who led a gang of teenagers in an attack on a shopping centre.