Letter to the Editor: We do need more gardaí, and we must support them

“Calls for more gardaí in Cork ‘have fallen on deaf ears’” ran the headline in the Irish Examiner on Saturday November 2 on the piece by security journalist Sean O’Riordan, who detailed the crime rate in Cork “where the number of gardaí per head of population is lower than similar areas of Dublin.”

As a member of Cork County Council, I have pursued this very serious security problem at that level and beyond, where there was unanimous support, but none at a national level from successive governments.