EU to decide Garda age row

A legal row over which State body should examine claims of discrimination arising from maximum age limits on new entrants to the gardaí will become before the EU’s top court today .

Three men who wished to join the force are claiming they were discriminated against because of the maximum age limit of 35 years for new trainee gardaí.

Applications submitted by the three men to join the gardaí, between 2004 and 2007, were not considered as they were all older than 35.