Garda task force may track criminal gangs on rail network

The Oireachtas Committee on Justice is to ask the acting Garda Commissioner, Noirín O’Sullivan, if there is a need to set up a dedicated garda unit to patrol the country’s trains.

It comes after news that gangs from Dublin are using trains to carry out robbing sprees and aggravated burglaries in other parts of the country.

Committee chairman and Fine Gael TD David Stanton, said the next time the country’s most senior garda appears before it, she will be asked what steps should be taken to combat such gangs.