Female recruits to gardaí more likely to fail fitness tests than men

The Garda Representative Association has in the past raised concerns over the pre-entry fitness tests being “excessively harsh”.

Young female recruits to An Garda Síochána were far more likely than men to fail fitness tests for entry to the force over the past year and a half.

Detailed figures from the gardaí reveal that nearly half of female candidates failed a pre-entry fitness test during the past eighteen months.