Mick Clifford: Bike-gate shows Harris' clean-up mission spun out of control

The handling of the garda and the bike case owes far more to do with a culture drafted into An Garda Síochána by Commissioner Drew Harris

Garda Commissioner Drew Harris was appointed in 2018 with a mandate, to the greatest extent, to clean up the organisation.

The case of the garda and the bicycle has left many people wondering about the apparent new way of doing things. In recent days, what had turned into a saga came to a head when the garda was finally cleared of any wrongdoing.

The facts have been well aired. A garda in the Midlands lent a bicycle which was the property of An Garda Síochána to a local man during covid. The man had a problem with his knees and couldn’t access a new bike he’d bought because of the lockdown.