'Urgent need' to better integrate security analysis amid serious threats to Ireland

Assistant Commissioner Michael McElgunn identified a wide range of threats facing Ireland. Picture: Moya Nolan

Ireland is facing “serious and wide-ranging” security issues and needs to integrate its analysis of domestic and overseas threats, a leading expert has said.

Professor Ben Tonra of UCD was responding to a wide-ranging interview in the Irish Examiner with the head of Garda Intelligence, Assistant Commissioner Michael McElgunn.