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9 unusual facts about Garda Síochána


Citizen's arrest

The arrest can only be effected if the arrestor has reasonable cause that the person will attempt to avoid apprehension by Gardaí and the arrestor delivers the person to Garda custody as soon as is practicable.

Driving licence in Poland

In February 2009, the Irish police force (Gardai) was investigating a recidivist who received numerous traffic tickets at different addresses when they determined that Gardaí had mistaken the words "Prawo Jazdy", Polish for "driving licence", for the name of the motorist.

Garda

An Garda Síochána, the national police of the Republic of Ireland

Golden, County Tipperary

It is located on the western outskirts of the village, on the N74 road near the (now operated on a part-time basis) Garda station at Persses Lot.

Hermann Görtz

In May 1940 the Irish police raided the home of an IRA member of German descent, Stephen Carroll Held, who had been working with Görtz, at his house at Blackheath Park, Clontarf.

Irish Guard

Garda Síochána, police force in Ireland whose members are colloquially called "guards"

Nora Wall

The Court of Criminal Appeal found that a miscarriage of justice had occurred, and that there had been a serious breakdown in communications between the offices of the Director of Public Prosecutions, the Chief State Solicitor, the Garda Síochána (police) and prosecuting counsel.

She finished her contract with the St. Vincent de Paul, and, after some time, got work with Sir Patrick Dunn’s Hospital, which she was forced to leave after the Gardaí informed the hospital she should not be working with people.

Operation Anvil

Garda Síochána operation targeting organised crime and criminal gangs and associates


2009 Bank of Ireland robbery

Late on the night of 26 February, Travers, whose father is a member of the Garda Síochána based at Clontarf, was alone watching television at the home of his girlfriend near Kilteel, County Kildare.

Bank of Ireland

The thefts were initially reported to the Garda Síochána, however the Banks senior management did not know about the problem until February 2008 after an internal audit uncovered the theft and the Bank did not advise the Data Protection Commissioner and the Central Bank of Ireland until mid-April 2008.

Conor Lenihan

In 2007 he banned Gardaí and Garda reserves from wearing the Sikh turban, saying "if we are to take integration seriously, people who come here must understand our way of doing things. When the President and Ministers travel to the Middle East, they accept cultural requirements of the country and the culture in which they are operating. It is a vice-versa situation with regard to Ireland".

Dissident republican

They regard both (the Northern Ireland Assembly in Belfast and Oireactas Éireann) in the Irish Republic as illegitimate, along with their respective police forces - the PSNI and the Garda Síochána.

Leonard Boyle

The latter was a member of the police (Garda Síochána) and drowned while on holiday in Ballybunion, Co. Kerry July 1940 and acted as Boyle's father following the death of his mother 1933.

Micheál Mac Liammóir

Mac Liammóir claimed when talking to Irish playwright, Mary Manning, to have had a homosexual relationship with General Eoin O'Duffy, former Garda Síochána Commissioner and head of the quasi-fascist Blueshirts in Ireland, during the 1930s.

Mick Moody

Mick was a member of the Garda Síochána and made the headlines in August 1989 when he arrested U2 member Adam Clayton.


see also

Death of Kenneth Salvesen

Gary Sheehan, Garda Síochána 23589L, killed by the Provisional IRA

Fachtna Murphy

He joined An Garda Síochána in 1967 and holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) Degree in Police Management and a Diploma in Management and Industrial Relations, and has also studied policing methods overseas at both the FBI Academy, Quantico, USA and at the Police College, Bramshill, England.

John Cosgrove

John M.G. Cosgrove (born 1949), Garda Síochána and recipient of the Scott Medal