Irish Examiner View: A new scandal must mean a new response

Garda Commissioner Drew Harris has come under pressure over cancelled domestic violence 999 calls.

Apart from the Catholic Church, or the banks maybe, no institution in this State can afford the fall-out of another self-inflicted scandal as poorly as An Garda Síochána.

Yet, Commissioner Drew Harris found himself defending the indefensible this week over cancelled domestic violence 999 calls and more than 19,000 other cancelled emergency calls. As a piece of data, as an expression of what happened, those bland words and figures are inadequate. They quantify but hardly convey the terrible situation they try to capture.