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THE 99 NEW gardaí who graduated from Templemore in April have been assigned to stations around the country, where they will continue their training as part of the force’s radically overhauled training scheme.
It’s six years since the last batch of graduates left the Tipperary institution to take up duties at local stations.
So where are the new recruits going?
Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald revealed the locations, in answer to a parliamentary question from Fine Gael TD Sean Kyne.
Here’s the breakdown of where they’re being sent:
Dublin
Dun Laoghaire: 5
Ballymun: 5
Store Street: 5
Tallaght: 5
Pearse Street: 5
Blanchardstown: 5
Cork
Cork City: 5
Limerick
Henry Street: 5
Galway
Galway: 5
Rest of Ireland
Ennis, Clare: 5
Drogheda: 5
Portlaoise: 5
Navan: 5
Thurles: 5
Naas, Kildare: 5
Letterkenny: 5
Tralee: 5
Castlebar: 5
Waterford: 4
Wexford: 5
The government has sanctioned two further intakes of 125 Garda recruits later this year, bringing the total number of new recruits to 550 by the end of 2015.
According to the Minister:
On attestation they will be assigned to Garda stations throughout the country by the Garda Commissioner taking account of crime trends and policing priorities so as to ensure the best possible use is made of these resources.
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I’m not usually one to heap praise on the government but everyone is a genius in hindsight.
I felt they reacted very well in the beginning to an unknown and terrifying virus.
I had expected the usual approach of lagging behind and reacting to developments but they got ahead of it and everything was taken care of.
If they spent or bought too much stock? Better than too little in the face of the unknown.
Toibin is trying to score easy points.
His suggestion that anyone could have come up with the app is laughable.
@Keniby: I feel Ireland was poor in the beginning tbh, especially watching from Vietnam where things got strict as soon as they noticed China was quiet on saying anything and a normal life was had for a good year while most of the world was locked down. Ireland felt very reactionary and never proactive during the early stages. It didn’t feel like the government knew the severity of what was going on until March and NPHET became the real leaders. But compared to countries like the US and Brazil, Ireland did well enough. The population knowing from how bad we had it with diseases in the recent past and getting vaccinated really helped in the long run too.
Anyone who has worked in the IT sector will have seen this before, somebody with no knowledge or experience saying “it should be easy to build the website/app/system” without any deep understanding of what is actually involved.
@Jack Johnson: exactly! Plus its not just the app, its all the backend of the infrastructure. I thought it would have been considered money well spent at the time for what we got vs the cost
Awhhh I’ll miss someone asking how I am every morning
A fella goes to his doctor for a check up and ask’s how long do you think this covid will last, and he replys how the hell would i know i’m a doctor not a politician.
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