The strength of the Garda force will soon start to decline and may go as low as 12,000 in the near future, the force’s middle managers have warned. That prediction, if it came to pass ...

Little did he know he would soon to trading his life and oily overalls on the Continent for a Garda uniform and the streets of Dublin. Back home in Ireland that summer, Det Gda Jerry McCabe was ...

There are growing national security concerns that no career garda officers will apply for the position of garda commissioner. It follows deep unhappiness within senior ranks at how successive ...

A former Assistant Garda Commissioner who was awarded damages after he was suspended by the Garda Commissioner in the year he was due to retire has donated a substantial amount of the money to ...

An investigation is under way after a garda was struck by a car while on routine patrol in Kinnegad, Co Westmeath. Gardaí said that the incident happened in the Heathfield area of the town at ...

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A 25-year-old woman charged with punching one member of An Garda Síochána in the nose and biting another officer’s arm was remanded in custody on Thursday. Garda Ken O’Brien arrested Teegan ...

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More info Residential burglaries dropped by 75 per cent during the winter phase in 2024 and 2025 compared to 10 years ago, during the winter phase in 2014 and 2015, new Garda figures have shown.

You can check out at any time. More info The size of the Garda Siochana could plummet by up to 2,000 members – despite a massive government recruitment campaign, a union leader has warned.

A drunk pensioner bit into a garda’s leg and spread ­faeces around a station so badly officers had to use hazmat suits to get him into a cell. Vincent Murphy (71) also exposed himself ...

Irish Justice Minister Jim O’Callaghan said in the Dail last week that “we are at a stage where we are trying to recruit as many members into An Garda Síochána as we can” — and that ...