‘Outsider’ could be next boss of gardaí

The head of the Policing Authority has said a new Garda commissioner could be an “outsider” but that the package for the role needs to be improved.

Chairwoman Josephine Feehily, a ddressing the Association of European Journalists, outlined outstanding reforms needed in the force and said it had been a “rollercoaster” for the authority in its first two years of operations.

Discussing the penalty-points scandal, Ms Feehily said: “It is a real challenge for Garda management to get gardaí to pay attention to counting things and putting them into IT systems because they are trained in a whole different way.”