Gardaí ‘hurting’, acting chief admits

Acting Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan has said an internal survey of frontline gardaí shows they were "hurting" from the succession of controversies battering the force.

Speaking at a consultation forum on justice, focusing on the planned establishment of a policing authority, the interim boss said members were “very concerned” at everything that had happened to the force.

Again promising an era of openness and transparency, she said she would be telling the new batch of Garda recruits next month — the first since 2009 — that certain “standards, behaviours and values” would be expected of them.