Gardaí ‘can’t cope’ with acute shortages

Middle-ranking gardaí have urged Garda chief Nóirín O’Sullivan to speak out about the staff shortage in the force before a garda is “seriously injured or worse”.

And in a stinging attack on the commissioner, the head of the Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors said “nothing has changed” in the force despite all her talk of change, consultation, and engagement.

AGSI president Tim Galvin told Ms O’Sullivan that she should “take a leaf out of the [Justice] Minister’s book” in her approach to the association.