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There were nearly 200 incidents where a Garda was injured in the line of duty in the last year.
The Garda Representative Association is calling for a mandatory penalty for people found guilty of assaulting officers.
Donegal-based Vice President of the GRA, Brendan O’Connor, says it seems to be an ‘ever-growing problem’: