Junior gardaí ‘hung out to dry’ by top brass

Probationer gardaí with little experience of investigations were ‘hung out to dry’ by Garda management as, it has been claimed.

A rank-and-file Garda leader said the Guerin report showed that inexperienced officers were “forsaken, betrayed and pilloried by those who had a duty of care towards them”.

Garda Representative Association general secretary PJ Stone said “there are lessons to be learned from Bailieborough” and that there are also irregularities in Garda management that require explanation.