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Updated 9.06pm
THE GARDA COMMISSIONER has issued a directive ordering gardaí to come to work on Friday, when a strike by three ranks of the force is planned.
The move comes after the Garda Representative Association (GRA) last night rejected government proposals. The executive of the Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors (AGSI) rejected a similar deal late this afternoon.
In her directive, seen by TheJournal.ie, Nóirín O’Sullivan acknowledges members have “given selflessly to protect the public and the State.”
However, she says she believes the proposed course of action “may irreparably compromise our authority to police the State.
In addition, it will negatively impact on public confidence in An Garda Síochána and jeopardise the respect in which An Garda Síochána and each member of the garda organisation is held.
She describes the current situation as ‘unprecedented’, and says if the strike action proposed for Friday goes ahead it would be “gravely damaging for the delivery of a policing and security service for this country as well as for An Garda Síochána as an organisation and each individual member of An Garda Síochána.”
She goes on to remind gardaí of their statutory obligation to perform their duty.
In the letter issued to gardaí today, O’Sullivan instructed that all annual leave and rest days are to be cancelled, in accordance with her statutory functions under the Garda Síochána Act 2005, to ‘direct and control’.
In these circumstances, members are hereby directed to make themselves available for duty during the period 7am on 4 November, 2016 to 7am on 5 November, 2016.
One source said this action would “inflame the whole thing”.
Superintendents have been asked to contact each garda individually to ask them if they will be available for work. On the day, two 12-hour shifts will be introduced to ensure a full service is provided.
Discipline ’for another day’
It is unclear what action will be taken if gardaí ignore the directive. In a press conference this evening, Tánaiste and Minister for Justice Frances Fitzgerald did confirm that “there will be possible disciplinary action for gardaí who don’t show up for work, but that is for another day”.
The Tánaiste along with Minister for Public Expenditure Paschal O’Donohoe invited members of the gardaí to a meeting tonight at 7pm in an attempt to solve the dispute before Friday.
They released a statement later saying that though there was a ”useful exchange of views” there was no resolution, but “all involved remain committed to continuing attempts to reach a resolution”.
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Do all the toe rags end up in spain.
fun in the sun (with a gun) sorry hun for the pun
U ok Hun?
Malaya as in Malaysia ? Off the topic
They can keep her.
Mad how they’re all in Marbella and Porto Banus. Torremolinos amd Benalmadema are now becoming the nicer safer resorts.
All of the Irish trash over in Spain, that’s open borders for you, the Spanish should have stricter border controls and stop Irish Christians going over there and becoming involved in criminality and drug-dealing, if the Irish can’t respect the local laws and customs they should be shipped back to where they came from. Check out this video of Irish Christians bringing their debauched lifestyle to the Costa del Sol in Spain, is this what we want to happen in our country with open borders? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9p7Ur15IdA
That sounds fair enough, dude.
Excellent stuff Dick. Top marks.
Breaking my resolve not to comment but love this from Richard!
Spoh on Richard if Joe Stalin was still around the drug pushing parasites wouldn’t have an easy life he said one time if a man is causing problems in a community the answer is to put that man to sleep, no man no problem, so simple, yet I’m hearing on radio every day where decent people are selling their homes to pay off debt to these parasites and where the gardai tell them there’s nothing they can do to help. Unbelievible, if Michael Collins or any of those men who stood with him were around today they wouldn’t hesitate to put those parasites to sleep and they certainly wouldn’t be cowed by PC
You’re judging your justice on a dead man. The day has changed. The forces who wish to act are constrained by the people who harp on about the past. They elevate the past while living in it and denegrate the present. You can’t have your cake and shit on it at the same time.
Good……work together and get them all. Women incl
There is clearly a cultural problem with the Irish, they are constantly involved violent crimes. Europe should close the borders to the Irish until they learn to adhere to European culture.
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