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The GRA has welcomed the new interim roster for their members following yesterday’s meeting with Garda officials. Management met all four Garda Associations on Monday to try and resolve the issue over rosters that lead to threats of industrial action from members earlier this month. Following yesterday’s meeting, the sides…

The President of the Garda Representative Association has called for more support for gardaí who are working on the front line. It comes after three stories were published in yesterday’s Irish Daily Mail, in which members of An Garda Siochana, two of which had recently resigned, recounted how their jobs…

The newly announced President of the Garda Representative is hopeful that recruitment issues and equipment within An Garda Siochana will be addressed during his tenure.   Donegal based Garda Brendan O’Connor was announced as President of the GRA at its annual conference in Westport this week.   Garda O’Connor previously…

The Garda Representative Association says the number of attacks on Gardaí has risen significantly in recent years.   The organisation, which is holding it’s annual conference in Kerry, wants mandatory sentences introduced for those convicted of assaulting officers.   The GRA said it believes the Department of Justice can work…

The Vice President of the Garda Representative Association has said today that enforcing new Covid-19 restrictions around the border will be difficult and complex.   Donegal Garda, Brendan O’Connor says there are many unique challenges when it comes to border policing.   He says that there is speculation that there…

New figures released today are claiming that the Sligo Leitrim region has proportionally more than twice the number of Gardai compared to the greater Dublin area. The report in today’s Irish Independent are suggesting that there are wide variations in the number of Gardai per head of population in the…