An Garda Síochána

An Garda Síochána has come under sharp criticism from the Policing Authority in a new report which says the organisation is "repeatedly over-promising and under-delivering". The watchdog said the garda accepts third-party recommendations "quickly ... with little assessment as to the fe

Plans to regulate private security personnel employed to enforce court orders have been welcomed by the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL). The civil rights group told Irish Legal News that tensions over the conduct of security officials at evictions in Dublin last year illustrated the need fo

In a long-running dispute involving a former member of An Garda Síochána who complained of bullying and sexual harassment in 2009, Mr Justice Senan Allen has granted an order declaring that the former Garda cannot re-litigate claims already dealt with in the superior court but has refu

Garda Commissioner Drew Harris has been challenged to clarify the details of a car crash at An Garda Síochána's headquarters following conflicting reports about the incident. An unmarked PSNI vehicle carrying Mr Harris as a passenger was damaged after striking a bollard as it attempted

An Garda Síochána has announced it will follow in the footsteps of its Scottish and Northern Ireland counterparts by allowing Muslim gardaí to wear the hijab. Commissioner Drew Harris said he hoped the move "will encourage people from minority communities to join An Garda S&iacu

A member of An Garda Síochána has been awarded over €40,000 in damages for an injury to his finger caused by a detainee who became violent while being photographed and fingerprinted. Describing the Detective Garda as a genuine officer and “not a moaner whatsoever”, Mr

Prominent legal academic Dr Vicky Conway and solicitor Paul Mageean have been appointed to the Policing Authority. Dr Conway, an academic lawyer lecturing at DCU, returns to the Authority, having previously been a member and having also served as a member of the Commission on the Future of Policing

Nine retired gardaí will be asked to repay thousands of euros because their pension entitlement was miscalculated, The Times reports. The former assistant and deputy Garda commissioners were overpaid between €7,000 to €24,000 each between 2012 and 2018 because the provisions of sect

Gardaí were fined over 4,500 times for disciplinary breaches over the five-year period between 2013 and 2018, The Irish Times reports. Figures released to the newspaper under Freedom of Information legislation reveal a total of €357,930 was deducted from Garda wages for 4,595 disciplinar