Frances Fitzgerald: No intelligence to suggest increased risk of dissident attacks

Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald says there is no specific intelligence to suggest there is a heightened risk of attacks by dissident republicans during the 1916 commemorations later this month.

Speaking in the wake of a car bomb attack by dissident republicans in Belfast last week, she pledged that the gardaí would remain on heightened alert for any threat of violence and would also remain vigilant at the funeral today of Dublin’s latest gangland victim, republican Vincent Ryan, 25, who was shot dead in Finglas last Monday.

Attending the passing-out ceremony for 99 new garda members at the Garda College in Templemore, Co Tipperary, Ms Fitzgerald said that Garda Commissioner Noreen O’Sullivan and her senior officers had been in contact with the Ryan family about the funeral arrangements and they made it clear they did not want revenge.