Scandals overshadow everything else for An Garda Síochána

Caroline O’Doherty details the litany of headline-grabbing incidents involving An Garda Síochána over the past number of years.
Scandals overshadow everything else for An Garda Síochána
Sat, 11 Feb, 2017 - 00:00
Caroline O’Doherty

They’ve risked breaking the law to go on strike, tackled the bloodiest gangland war ever seen in this country and lost two of their members to vicious murders.

Yet when it comes to headlines for An Garda Síochána these past few years, scandal eclipses everything else.

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