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Ireland: Police take to the streets

01 March 1997

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For the first time in the history of the Irish state, the Garda Siochana mounted a protest march through the streets of Dublin on 17 April. The 700 turn out was poor, however, with participants making it clear that they were "off-duty". There are about 8,500 Gardai who are split between the Garda Representative Association and the break-away Garda Federation which has around 2,500 members, drawn mainly from the Dublin area. At one stage the dispute with the Department of Justice over pay threatened to escalate into a one-day strike, but two weeks prior to the demonstration, middle management support for the action was withdrawn. The Justice Minister, Nora Owen, has already said that she will not set up a pay commission to examine Garda pay. Instead, she is threatening to introduce legislation dissolving the GRA and Federation, and establishing a new staff association.

Irish Times, 17 & 18.4.97.

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