Where are the extra gardaí in small towns?

ON RTÉ’s Prime Time recently a Fianna Fáil deputy, Michael Mulcahy, said the gardaí had never been better resourced and never more numerous.

If that’s the case, where are they? I grew up in Doneraile, Co Cork. Since the 1930s there had always been a sergeant and two or three gardaí in the station on main street.

But now the station there is scaled down to the size of a large closet and has no resident sergeant or garda.