Fears that calls were not communicated to local garda stations following national computer failure 

Gardaí could not be dispatched to serious incidents - including an armed crime and multiple road traffic collisions - from regional control centres last week due to a national computer system failure.

Gardaí could not be dispatched to serious incidents - including an armed crime and multiple road traffic collisions - from regional control centres last week due to a national computer system failure.

The new GardaSAFE computer aided dispatch (CAD) system crashed for about four hours on August 20 across the four regional control centres which dispatch gardaí to crimes and accidents.