Drew Harris: Responding to children’s deaths is heavy burden for gardaí

Tributes at the scene where two children died in a fire at Mulyyfarnham Co Westmeath (PA)

Drew Harris has acknowledged the “heavy” burden on the gardaí who responded to a series of tragic incidents involving children in recent weeks.

During a public meeting of the Garda Commissioner and the Policing Authority at Dublin Castle on Thursday, the difficult incidents that gardai have responded to were raised.