Decision on planned garda strikes won’t be known till Monday

A decision on whether the next three planned garda strikes days will go ahead will not be made before the Garda Representative Association meets on Monday.

The GRA and the Association of Garda Sergeants & Inspectors called off yesterday’s strike after 11th-hour meetings on Thursday and agreed to ballot their members on the Labour Court recommendation. They had planned to strike for the next three Fridays.

While the AGSI has suspended all industrial action until the result of its ballot is known, the GRA only deferred that decision, pending a detailed analysis of the Labour Court offer.