AGSI Conference: Talk of adequate resources ‘fake news’

Mid-ranking gardaí have issued stinging criticism of Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan, accusing her of breaching due process in ascribing “incompetence or deception” towards gardaí for the breath test scandal.

Association of Garda Sergeants & Inspectors leader Antoinette Cunningham also accused the Commissioner and her predecessors of engaging in “fake news” for telling successive governments that they had adequate resources to run the organisation.

Ms Cunningham told the Commissioner at the AGSI annual conference that members needed “strong leadership” and wanted “inspiration and motivation” from their chief.