Gardaí have low morale as calls made for Government to change model

Pictured are Gardai on patrol on O'Connell Street . Picture: Leah Farrell / RollingNews.ie

The general secretary of the Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors (AGSI) has said that morale in the force is "low" - and has urged the Government to change the model of policing.

Antoinette Cunningham was speaking in the wake of the arrest of a male youth in connection to an incident which saw an American tourist assaulted in Dublin.