Gardaí stage Kinsale boat landing to commemorate centenary of Cork West Garda division 

Garda Tom Daly is helped ashore wearing a uniform of the Garda Síochána in 1922 marking the first step ashore of the Kinsale gardaí in 1922 as part of the Kinsale Garda Síochána 100th celebrations. Picture: Howard Crowdy

A boat landing to the tune of bagpipes at Kinsale Pier was how gardaí today commemorated the centenary of the Cork West Garda Division.

Gardaí replicated how the first members of the division arrived into Kinsale in 1922, by coming down the Bandon River by boat, and landing on Kinsale’s main pier. They were met on arrival by a bagpiper, playing a lament of remembrance.