Ahern tells GRA to apologise to Irish people

Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern has demanded that the Garda Representative Association (GRA) apologise to the people of Ireland for scathing comments which he says forced him to pull out of an address to the organisation's annual conference in Limerick.

Ahern tells GRA to apologise to Irish people

Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern has demanded that the Garda Representative Association (GRA) apologise to the people of Ireland for scathing comments which he says forced him to pull out of an address to the organisation's annual conference in Limerick.

Ahern said that accusations in a speech planned but not delivered by outgoing GRA president Michael O’Boyce that the Government had been "corrupted by years of power" amounted to an attack on the institutions of the State.

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