Special report: Stepping up the pace of Garda reform

The rush to establish the State’s Policing Authority has left important questions about how it will work go unanswered, reports Cormac O’Keeffe

IT’S 2015 and a young boy playing on the streets of Dublin on a Saturday afternoon is mistakenly gunned down in a gangland shooting.

That night, elderly brothers in rural Tipperary are badly beaten and left for dead by a roaming burglary gang.