An ombudsman or a water cannon?

SINCE the recent riots in Dublin, comparisons have been made with the May Day riots in 2004.

Mon, 13 Mar, 2006 - 00:00

GRA president Dermot O’Donnell is quoted as saying: “I think it's a symptom of the lack of investment and resourcing of An Garda Síochána that in almost two years we haven’t bought one of our own and we currently don’t have a water cannon available to us.”

Clearly he sees the two events as comparable. I think that most fair-minded people would not.

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