Inside the garda trial: lawyers, fixed charge notices and a courtroom packed with gardaí

Lawyers, gardaí and political and sporting links converge in an unusually crowded Limerick trial examining 39 alleged attempts to quash fixed charge notices

Retired superintendent Eamon O’Neill.

All criminal trials are peopled by lawyers and gardaí. 

An ongoing trial at Limerick Circuit Criminal Court is practically the exclusive domain of lawyers and gardaí.