Garda Commissioner: Threat to Ireland's democracy has not fully dissipated

Gardaí during a parade into Dublin Castle (Nick Bradshaw/PA)

The threat to Ireland’s democracy has “not fully dissipated”, the Garda Commissioner has said.

Drew Harris described the work undertaken by gardaí to counteract the “very real and sustained threats” to the country’s national security as the “greatest achievement” of the police service in the past century.