Wow that mans life rubbed out for just 4 grand and no doubt its spent already! Don’t know how these people sleep at night

They will be got, those rats won’t hide forever.

100 members of the Garda and a shocked nation looking for these animals.

Can’t help but wonder if the culprits were mere amateurs. €4000 for a life. Don’t think it will be too long before they are caught.

A brave man’s life for €4k? Piano wire, lamp posts and testicles spring to mind for the cowards that did this. Hanging would be to easy for them!

Terrible. Name and shame these filthy animals A line been crossed.

Don’t matter if it,s £4 or 4 million, the way they killed this man, father, and husband was sick. This mans family deserve justice, unfortunately we don’t have a suitable punishment for the culprits. I just hope and pray that the culprits families and friends name them. And soon, ,RIP a fallen hero

Anybody who harbours these pond life should also be charged with murder!

R.I.P. Garda.

Mr Shatter its time to relise lives and society is more important than money,
My Condolences to this brave man’s family and colleagues.

The thin blue line just keeps getting eroded away.. Not much left of it now.. Gardai and Society need to unite as one and stand up against all these so called political leaders

4 grand? ffs. if life has become this cheap we need the death penalty back. hook up an electric chair and fry them.

The money is there to pay the Gardai if Shatter and his pals cut their own pay and perks. The Guards deserve to be paid properly for the job they do and we deserve to sleep in our beds at night knowing that if something happens we can call our local station and not one an hour or further away

Just go away Ruairi.

And learn to spell in the process

Gardaí believe it was a criminal gang rather than dissidents. Lot of people on here yesterday evidently thought they knew otherwise and spouted their usual anti-republican bile on a comments page that should’ve been left for RIP messages and messages of support for the Gardaí.

im sure we are not being given all the details, but when did these guys get the money if they were sitting in a car when approached by gardai, had they already robbed the money or did they rob it after they shot the garda?
one other thing im confused about is why do gardai escort security company’s, if securty companies cant collect money without garda escorts I think they shouldnt be doin such a service
rip to the officer

It amazes me why someone would give a thumbs down to a post saying RIP to this brave man. Shame on you faceless cowards

Should ther not be the death penalty for murderers of Gardai and Prison Officers, or at the very least TOTAL life imprisonment?

If this is a criminal gang then things are getting very bad indeed. It shows that they have no fear of Gardaí, no fear of a short sentence in an Irish luxury prison. I believe that they are not afraid because they know that 9 times out of 10 an unarmed Garda will turn up before an armed one. I know people that this Garda was armed, however he was ambushed without a chance. I believe that arming the Gardaí should have been discussed in the Dail after the uniformed Garda was shot at twice in Dublin late last year. I believe that if they arm the Gardaí they will improve their on going training. They will put fear back into the criminal, and this is the only thing they fear, they are cowards. These people will not want a fair fight. Imagine if you are a criminal, you know that if you do something it will be most likely unarmed Gardaí that turn up. Now imagine if you are a criminal and every Garda that turns up is armed. We are living in a new Ireland, international criminals live and work in Ireland. Our Irish criminals have access to more firearms than ever. Tazer or firearm it is time to protect our Gardaí. 99% of the worlds police are armed, why are our police not worthy of that protection. I really believe that we will not need to wait 17 years for the next murder. So now folks what do we do?

Rest in peace.. Condolences to his Family and all his comrades friends & everyone who loved him.. Sad times.!

Arming uniformed Gardai will never happen and not for some reason of tradition or good faith. It is a purely financial move to save money on extra training, extra weapons & ammunition and litigation arising out of using firearms. Gardai used to all be firearm trained as standard but that stopped in the late 90′s to save money. Alan Shatter is currently trying to remove and reduce firearms and armed Gardai at local level preferring specific specialist patrols to cover. The whole Police force is being run on a shoestring with sub standard vehicles and equipment with Gardai winging it in the hope that nothing goes wrong. They can throw 100 Gardai at this horrible murder but it’s too little too late. It’s guilt money. Nobody should be murdered at work but it is clear that there is no longer a fear of law and order. All this government can do is pit the private sector against the public sector but it seems that, for now anyway, this brave Detective has united people in his death with unprecedented support for our police from the public. Don’t let Detective Garda Donohoe die in vain.

Nobody gives a f*ck about your story here mate…

what the fcuk are you blathering on about?

I was deeply saddened to hear of your loss. My thoughts are with you. I hope there will be justice. To the family, “Casting all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you.” – Hebrews4:15-16. It will keep you strong and face the world with a happy heart. Please accept my condolence words.

Jack what if the Gardaí paid for the weapons out of their own pocket? Just give me a sec to explain. What if they fronted the cash up front and then received a tax incentive later in the year? I know a hell of a lot of Gardaí that are interested in this. It would up skill the Gardaí, and give them immediate protection, better protection. I do not want to see another Garda killed or injured because the did not have better protection. There is some top notch tech available at the moment. Go onto YouTube and look up alternative tazer technology. Worth thinking about, if the GRA are looking at these they should take note.

Wait till it happens to you or someone you know and get no help whatsoever. Freedom of speech.

Why is there over 100 gardai assigned to this case if he was just a normal guy or some thug with criminal history there wouldn’t be that amount of gardai assigned to the case

No crime without poverty,no poverty without crime