City authority should press for extra gardaí

THE recent report by John Fitzgerald recommended that 100 additional gardaí be stationed in local bases in the communities at risk in Limerick.

Without them, intimidation will grow, hard-working citizens will continue to flee their homes and those who scare them out will be further emboldened — as Cathal McCarthy indicated in his letter (June 20).

The city’s former mayor, Cllr Joe Leddin, downplayed the role of the city council in implementing the Fitzgerald report (Letters, June 27).