An alternative [to Paul Reynolds] review of Garda performance in 2023...
January - Garda Sgt Cathal Middleton (42) given 5-month prison sentence for sexual assault
February - Luke Rochford (35), who is no longer a member of the Garda, is charged with stealing sniper rifle parts from the Defence Forces ordnance stores in the Curragh Camp in Kildare
February - Ex Gardasuperintendent John Murphy, currently serving six years after being caught with €600k of "Hutch drugs", has been arrested on suspicion of colluding with the Hutch dto.
February - Drogheda District Court, Garda Julie McColgan (32, originally from Donegal) has been convicted of making a false instrument when investigating a crime in late 2019
February - A male probationer Gardawas arrested in Dublin Monday on suspicion of passing info to a well-known sportsman (40s) in Kildare who is believed to be associated with the Kinahan dto
March - Garda sgt Eamon Moran (49) appears in a Dublin court charged with “harassing a woman by persistently following, watching, pestering, besetting or communicating with her” over a 20-mth period.
March - Garda Dillon O'Loughlin (26) admits assault and racist abuse of a taxi driver. The driver claimed the Garda used his badge to seize his taxi, after the drunken Garda started a fight over the fare.
March - A gardawho cannot be named by court order, gave evidence at the gangland/subversive Special Criminal Court in 2021, as a *defence witness* and is now under criminal investigation for perjury
March – Sunday Times reports on ongoing Garda corruption investigations “The level of corruptionamong a cohort of Gardai is of a scale usually seen in Italy or the US in the 1980s”
April - Female serving Garda(30s) based in the Dublin region, stopped at security at Dublin Airport yesterday with 2g of cocaine worth around €150. She's been released without charge with the drugs being analysed
May – Garda investigation: Garda A, a female Garda B, a male Civilian C, a female B was shagging A ,B is now shagging C B paid someone to vandalise A’s home A unlawfully accessed Pulse to get C’s address & phone number
June - Garda John Francis Ryan [no age, no station] appears in a Dublin court charged with dangerous driving after the deaths of three burglars. Covered by all media, but none managed to get a picture?
June - Sgt Desmond Brannock from Store Street in contention for thickest Garda in Ireland. Found slumped asleep at the steering wheel of his car, four times the alcohol limit, he then challenged his suspension. And has lost
June - Garda Holly Lane (33), accused of stealing a cannabis exhibit from a colleague's locker at Store Street station, which she then had for sale or supply. Allegedly came undone when she shared pics on Whatsapp with the whole station. District court non-jury trial in 2024.
July - Cork city-based Gardasergeant Robert Brosnan (44) convicted of crashing his own car off-duty into a van, injuring the van's driver. He was seven times the drink driving limit for a professional driver.
July - suspended Clare gardaDavid Kenneally (41) charged with drink driving. What is rare is the charge Kenneally tried to consume more alcohol at the scene of a traffic stop to frustrate any prosecution.
July - Dun Laoghaire district-based Garda civilian worker Holly Hayden (27) pleads guilty to giving confidential Garda information to a major drugs criminal in Wicklow,
Sep - "Leinster-based" Gardasuperintendent, one of 160 in the entire service, placed on "restrictive duties" after allegedly racially verbally abusing a bouncer at a Dublin nightclub, knocking a phone out of a female's hands & telling Gardai "do you know who I am”
Sep – jailed Garda Paul Moody faces new allegations of domestic abuse and coercive control
Oct – DPP considering harassment prosecution of the male Garda who tormented a female Garda with bananas, knowing that she had a banana phobia.
Oct – Galway garda Michael Mannion (41) sentenced to 6-months in prison for two counts of spying on female colleagues in a changing room
Oct – Dublin garda Mark Doyle pleads guilty to eight counts of assault though charges of coercive control appear to have been dropped. Sentencing expected in early 2024.
Nov - Detective Garda Robert Hennessy (sorry, no age, station or photo) judged guilty of assaulting well-known St Johns Ambulance victim, Michael Finnegan. CCTV in a bar showed the assault.
Nov - Garda John Burke, stationed in Tralee, says GardaPatrick Curran (35) stationed in Killarney, assaulted him causing harm. GardaCurran denies the assault and says he was in his own bed the whole night.
Some time in 2023, Garda Anthony Gath released from prison after a year’s sentence for sexual assault.
Not once covered by RTE during the trial, conviction or sentencing in December 2022.
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