Accusations of bias in ‘Dublin-centric’ Garda deployment

The Government has been accused of being “Dublin-centric” after it emerged that almost half of the new Garda recruits who have been assigned to Garda divisions in the last three years have been stationed in Dublin.

Of the 981 recruits placed between 2015 and 2017, 472 went to one of the six Dublin divisions.

That compares to just nine across all of the Cork city and county divisions and just nine across the whole of Galway, the country’s third largest county by population.