The Mick Clifford Podcast: The guards, now and then - Conor Brady
2022 marks the 100-year anniversary of An Garda Síochána. File Picture
Exactly one hundred years ago this month meetings took place in the Gresham Hotel to shape a new police force.
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Michael Collins chaired the first meeting and what emerged from the discussions was a new force that still had some hurdles to mount before settling down to be guardians of the peace.
In the force’s centenary year, Conor Brady, former chair of the Garda Ombudsman and former editor of the , assesses how An Garda Síochána, has got on and is getting on.
