‘Give names’ of those responsible for faking breath test figures, says Acting Commissioner

Acting Commissioner Donal Ó Cualáin has called on frontline members who claim they were pressurised by managers into faking breath test figures to “give names” of those responsible.

He said Assistant Commissioner Michael O’Sullivan, who conducted the internal report into the breath test and fixed charge notice scandals, was conducting a further examination into claims made by the Garda Representative Association (GRA) last week.

The GRA said management was to be blamed “entirely” for the problem — in which 1.4m recorded breath tests were faked — and refused to accept that members had falsified the tests.