Nóirín O'Sullivan ‘inherited a poisoned chalice’ with An Garda Síochana

There would be calls for the head of the Garda commissioner regardless of whether it was Nóirín O’Sullivan or someone else, the chair of the new policing commission has said.

Kathleen O’Toole said this was because Ms O’Sullivan and her management team “inherited a poisoned chalice” when they took over.

Ms O’Toole, a US police chief and former head of the Garda Inspectorate, made the comments to the media after the first meeting of the Commission on the Future of Policing in Ireland.