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# breath-tests - Monday 24 December, 2018
Santa gets the all clear to enter Irish airspace
Santa’s sleigh has been checked for air worthiness.
# breath-tests - Friday 31 August, 2018
Senior traffic garda singles out gardaí he believes aren't issuing enough fines Exclusive
Management has been accused of “going down a dangerous road” if it is judging performance purely based on these statistics.
# breath-tests - Wednesday 8 August, 2018
'Significant concern' over lack of breath testing at scenes of fatal crashes
The authority has outlined a series of concerns about how the force operates.
# breath-tests - Thursday 23 November, 2017
Commissioner confirms no gardaí will be disciplined over breath test scandal
O Cualáin said reviewing all 505,730 calls made by gardaí to log breath test data would take a number of years.
# breath-tests - Saturday 4 November, 2017
Two investigations later, there's no assurance garda scandals will not happen again
It is time now for the finger-pointing to stop and for that culture shift we’ve been hearing about for years to begin.
# breath-tests - Thursday 2 November, 2017
Garda Superintendent says new report of 400,000 more falsified breath tests 'could be described as a guesstimate'
The report published yesterday details how and why checkpoints were faked.
# breath-tests - Wednesday 1 November, 2017
Gardaí reported fake checkpoints - and falsified 400k more breath checks than previously thought
Gardaí are having their fingers rapped over breath tests again – this time by the Policing Authority.
# breath-tests - Wednesday 27 September, 2017
'Is it non-compliance, or just lack of capacity?' - Policing Authority unsure of competence of Garda management
Chairperson of the Policing Authority Josephine Feehily was in front of the Oireachtas Justice Committee this morning.
# breath-tests - Monday 18 September, 2017
Fianna Fáil says investigating 1.4m fake breath tests would be inconclusive and expensive
Jim O’Callaghan said investigating such a large number of cases would “cost a huge amount of money”.
# breath-tests - Sunday 17 September, 2017
Poll: Would taking disciplinary action against gardaí over fake breath tests be 'a waste of time'?
Fianna Fáil’s Jim O’Callaghan has suggested that attempting to prosecute individual gardaí would be an exercise in futility.
# breath-tests - Thursday 14 September, 2017
Breath test scandal: Rank-and-file gardaí refuse to be 'scapegoated for ill-conceived policies'
The Garda Representative Association hit out at management, claiming the debacle is “entirely of their own making”.
# breath-tests - Saturday 9 September, 2017
'People saw it as toxic': Why just seven gardaí made submissions to the breath test probe
Many members of the force felt senior gardaí had already made their mind up about who was to blame.
# breath-tests - Thursday 7 September, 2017
Someone should be held accountable for false breath tests - but not yet, says government
A report found that there was a 71% gap between the breath test figures recorded on Pulse, and the actual tests carried out.
# breath-tests - Wednesday 6 September, 2017
County breakdown: 385% more breath tests entered in PULSE in Tipperary than actually carried out
A garda report into alcohol testing has found a difference of over 1.4 million between the number of tests counted and those actually carried out.
Fresh calls for Garda Commissioner to step down after latest revelations about false breath tests
Questions are being raised after 500,000 more false garda breath tests have been found.
# breath-tests - Wednesday 26 July, 2017
A new survey commissioned by An Garda Síochána says 92% of people trust the force
The figures will now be released every quarter.
# breath-tests - Thursday 29 June, 2017
Gardaí reveal 89 homicides over 14 years were not counted due to 'process issue'
In some cases, only one victim was counted even though multiple people were killed.
# breath-tests - Monday 15 May, 2017
Most people want Garda Commissioner Nóirín O'Sullivan fired
She has faced increasing pressure in recent months following a string of controversies.
# breath-tests - Thursday 27 April, 2017
'This was weak practice' - Garda Commissioner says it's 'too early' to say what caused breath tests scandal
O’Sullivan is making her first appearance in front of the Policing Authority since the scandal concerning Garda breath tests first broke.
# breath-tests - Wednesday 26 April, 2017
Gardaí: 'There were issues with how some homicides were classified'
Deputy Commissisioner John Twomey stressed all of these deaths were fully investigated.
# breath-tests - Tuesday 25 April, 2017
Commissioner: 'Either gardaí can't count accurately or someone's been making figures up'
Garda management will present an interim report on the breath test scandal to the Policing Authority this week.
# breath-tests - Monday 24 April, 2017
Gardaí on breath test scandal: 'It's not collective responsibility, it's a management issue'
The head of the Garda Representative Association said the role of managers is to ensure lower ranks are properly supervised.
# breath-tests - Tuesday 11 April, 2017
Just under half of people have confidence in the gardaí
There has been added scrutiny on An Garda Síochána in recent times.
'People are blaming us': Gardaí say scandals are making it harder for them to do their jobs
The general secretary of AGSI said “the finger of blame is pointing downwards without any evidence”.
# breath-tests - Sunday 2 April, 2017
How were the 150,000 garda hours for phantom breath tests accounted for?
The former Nothern Ireland police ombudsman said it is “mind-boggling” that this could have happened.
# breath-tests - Saturday 1 April, 2017
Former garda: Scandal down to sloppy practice, management's insatiable appetite for figures
Colin Connolly said he had hoped for change when Nóirín O’Sullivan took over but this just never happened.
Confusion over last-minute change in leadership of new garda probe
The lack of clarity about who was involved in the internal investigation was highlighted by TD Mick Wallace when he questioned the Commissioner this week.
# breath-tests - Friday 31 March, 2017
Questions, unanswered: Scandals are 'at best, incompetence and, at worst, deception'
Although many questions were asked, few were answered.
# breath-tests - Tuesday 28 March, 2017
Frances Fitzgerald claims she only found out about scale of garda scandal after press conference
There have been tense exchanges in the chamber this evening.
'We have confidence in the Commissioner': Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil divided over garda scandal
Sinn Féin has called a no-confidence motion in Nóirín O’Sullivan to be voted on next week in the Dáil.
Alerted to breath test discrepancy in 2014, gardaí just stopped ordering mouthpieces
The issue was raised a second time in 2015 after the Medical Bureau of Road Safety did its own survey of the devices.
An open and transparent garda briefing full of unanswered questions
The Commissioner told reporters yesterday she had heard the “disquiet” around the force’s latest scandal.
# breath-tests - Sunday 26 March, 2017
Mícheál Martin withdraws party support for Nóirín O'Sullivan
Fianna Fáil withdraw their support for the Garda Commissioner Nóiríon O’Sullivan.
# breath-tests - Thursday 26 May, 2011
The Daily Fix: Thursday
All the day’s news, and the bits and pieces you may have missed…
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Poll: Should voting in the Seanad election be extended?
AS GOVERNMENT-FORMATION talks continue post-general election, some focus is now turning to the Seanad election.
The upper house consists of 60 senators who are appointed or elected in three different ways: The Taoiseach’s nominees, panels and the university panel.
There has been much discussion about the Seanad in recent years with many people viewing it as elitist and in need of being reformed or scrapped altogether. The public was asked in a referendum in October 2013 whether the Seanad should be abolished – 51.7% said No, 48.27% said Yes.
The public previously voted to extend voting rights to all graduates of Irish third-level institutions, but a law allowing this to happen has never been enacted. However, many people argue this is still unfair given how many others would still be unable to vote.
What do you think: Should voting in the Seanad election be extended?
Poll Results:
Yes, to every citizen over 18 (2951)
The Seanad should be reformed or scrapped (2168)
Yes, to all third-level graduates (829)
No, it's fine the way it is (634)
I'm not sure (139)
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