Failure of Govt to pay for Trump and Pence visits undermines public welfare, says gardaí

The Government should be “thoroughly embarrassed” that, unlike here, the British Treasury is directly footing the bill for all vistis by US President Donald Trump there.

The Garda Representative Association said the insistence of the Irish Government that the policing and security cost of the visits of both the US President and US Vice President Mike Pence must come from within the existing Garda Budget was affecting the welfare of both the public and the gardaí on the ground.