Garda strike: Coalition allowed ‘Mexican stand-off to develop’

The Government has been accused of allowing a “Mexican stand-off” to develop leading to the unprecedented threat of a Garda strike today. Tánaiste and Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald yesterday made a final plea in the Dáil asking members of the GRA and AGSI to “pull back from the brink”.

Speaking in Belfast, Taoiseach Enda Kenny also encouraged members of both garda representative bodies not to take strike action.

However, Fianna Fáil’s justice spokesman Jim O’Callaghan accused the Government of managing the dispute “incompetently”.