Weathering the perfect storm in our police force

Sifting through the latest critical report of the Garda Síochána would leave even the staunchest supporter of the force grappling for good news.

It isn’t that there aren’t positives in it — large numbers of dedicated and overworked gardaí doing their best — it is just the sheer litany, and scale, of problems in terms of investigating crime.

And this is against the background of a force tossed and battered by one controversy after another this year.