Morris Tribunal report - Confidence in gardaí must be restored

IN light of the unrelenting savaging which the Garda Siochána received from the Morris Tribunal into garda corruption, any assurance from Justice Minister Michael McDowell that there would be no toleration of such appalling behaviour is worthless.

It has already happened, and the fact that such practices have been endemic to some extent in our national police force can only be damaging to public confidence in the force’s ability to be impartial.

Neither is it appropriate that the reports were released in the absence of the Dáil which should have had an immediate opportunity to debate the grave issues contained in them.