# gra-conference - Thursday 2 May, 2019
The GRA said people have resigned over the working conditions.
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# gra-conference - Wednesday 1 May, 2019
The GRA said this issue is particularly impacting on new recruits who are on lower incomes.
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# gra-conference - Tuesday 30 April, 2019
The Commissioner said he could always do with more resources but his responsibility is to use the budget he is given effectively.
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Flanagan said he will be meeting with the Garda Commissioner later today about the situation with feuding gangs in Drogheda.
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Gardaí are calling on the Commissioner to provide clear protocols on the detention of drink drivers.
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# gra-conference - Sunday 30 April, 2017
Garda representatives have said the force simply does not have the resources to police a hardened border.
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# gra-conference - Wednesday 26 April, 2017
“It’s not like we want to reunite the Dubliners and start growing beards all over the place.”
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Rank-and-file gardaí have warned they are not prepared for the types of terrorist attacks that have been happening in Europe.
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# gra-conference - Tuesday 25 April, 2017
Garda management will present an interim report on the breath test scandal to the Policing Authority this week.
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The Commissioner was responding to personal stories of gardai who had been attacked, including one who needed 22 staples in his elbow.
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# gra-conference - Monday 24 April, 2017
An internal dispute about two motions being removed from the GRA’s agenda is also likely to boil over this week.
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# gra-conference - Monday 25 April, 2016
Rank-and-file gardaí will discuss their concerns about armed cover at the Garda Representative Association annual conference.
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# gra-conference - Sunday 3 May, 2015
Gardaí at the GRA conference this year said no other public servants would be expected to work in these kinds of conditions.
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# gra-conference - Wednesday 29 April, 2015
A Cork garda recounted an armed incident in which he believes lives were put at risk because of a lack of equipment.
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General Secretary of the GRA PJ Stone was responding to allegations made in the Dáil by TDs Clare Daly and Mick Wallace.
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# gra-conference - Tuesday 28 April, 2015
In many cases offenders get off with suspended sentences or community service, they say.
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Nóirín O’Sullivan said she does not have enough detail about the alleged incident, raised in the Dáil by Clare Daly, to even conclude that it was a murder.
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Vice President Ciaran O’Neill said people are going into work “barely able to feed their families, juggling what bills to pay”.
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Garda representatives have said there is a “sinister element” to some of the protests and their members need better protection.
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# gra-conference - Monday 27 April, 2015
Garda representatives are calling for tasers to be introduced.
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The Garda Representative Association annual delegate conference begins tomorrow.
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# gra-conference - Wednesday 30 April, 2014
The General Secretary of the GRA said the Department of Justice should have no control over who the next Garda Commissioner is.
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A support network for the LGBT community said things have improved in the force but there’s still a way to go.
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Speaking at the GRA conference yesterday evening, O’Sullivan said the force is determined to apprehend the people who murdered the 41-year-old father of two.
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Delegates at the GRA conference will debate the legal implications of doing this, with one who is in favour of the motion saying it would help keep intoxicated prisoners safe.
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# gra-conference - Tuesday 29 April, 2014
“It means we cannot have a free flowing conversation with the prisoner”, says one garda.
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Interim Garda Commissioner Noirín O’Sullivan said the force is determined to focus on drugs and organised crime.
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Minds out of the gutter, please, this is serious business.
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Delegates at the GRA Conference have passed a motion calling for all gardaí to be given training in dealing with firearms and the various incidents in which they have to deal with them.
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GRA President John Parker said Noirín O’Sullivan has the 100 per cent support of his association.
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The GRA said businesses and communities are paying the price for poor resourcing and people are now deciding not to report some crimes at all.
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# gra-conference - Monday 28 April, 2014
Members of the GRA’s executive council said there is a need for a new system to address this, as well as legislation with harsher penalties for anyone who attacks a member of the force.
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In his opening address to delegates at the Garda Representative Association Conference, President John Parker also says there had been draconian prosecutions by GSOC in some cases.
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