Negotiators bid to avert Garda strike

Independent State negotiators have been called in to help avert the pending national policing crisis that is now just six days away.

The Department of Justice last night confirmed in a statement that it and the Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors (AGSI) had agreed to "utilise the services of the State industrial relations institutions, on an ad hoc basis, to augment the current processes in an attempt to avert the planned industrial action by AGSI members".

Talks between the Garda Representative Association and the Department of Justice are to begin this weekend.