Deputy Kenny: ‘Forestry replacing people’
A Sligo/Leitrim TD is claiming that forestry is replacing people in rural Ireland. Sinn Fein Deputy Martin Kenny says that where land is planted with trees, it is taken up for 60 years, with detrimental affects for surrounding areas. He was speaking after a meeting in Drumshanbo last night where…
Leitrim SF TD to meet GSOC
The Sligo/Leitrim TD who aired allegations in the Dail of garda malpractise in County Leitrim is to meet the Garda Ombudsman Commission this afternoon. Sinn Fein Deputy Martin Kenny’s allegations included claims that members of the Gardai engaged active criminals as informants, ran their own informants outside the normal intelligence…
Sinn Fein TD rejects claims of abuse of Dail privilege
A Sinn Fein TD in Leitrim has rejected claims by the Garda Representative Association that he abused Dail privilege in making allegations about the force in Leitrim yesterday. Martin Kenny says he makes no apology for revealing allegations of malpractice in the force in county Leitrim in the Dail. These…
GRA says proper procedures need to be followed on allegations of Garda malpractice
A representative for the Garda Representative Association in the north west says there has to be confidence in the system set up to investigate Garda malpractice. Sligo-based Garda and GRA spokesperson in Sligo Leitrim Ray Whims says that there is a procedure in place for reporting whistleblower claims. He has…