Commissioner Drew Harris says domestic violence key focus of Level 5 restrictions with 18% increase in cases this year #iestaff via @CormacJOKeeffe pic.twitter.com/wHKjxpAjn5
— Irish Examiner (@irishexaminer) October 23, 2020
This morning.
Garda HQ, Phoenix Park, Dublin.
Garda Commissioner Drew Harris outlining An Garda Síochána’s policing plan to support Level 5 of the National Framework for Living with COVID-19.
Garda Commissioner Drew Harris
No Irish American wants to intervene in internal Irish affairs. There are times however where Irish nationhood is in question. Drew Harris as head of Gardai is an utterly massive issue. I believe we need to know why @LeoVaradkar @fiannafailparty thought he was acceptable.
— Rep. Kevin J. Boyle (@RepKevinBoyle) September 24, 2020
This morning.
An intervention in internal Irish affairs from rising US Democrat star Kevin J Boyle following disclosures arising from the documentary Unquiet Graves, broadcast on RTÉ One last week.
Anyone?
Previously: What Seems To Be The Problem?
Our Garda Comissioner on a mission to stop a court ordered inquiry into the activities of the Glenane gang who apart from atrocities they committed in the North bombed Dublin and Monaghan… pic.twitter.com/dv477vFiQZ
— Tisme.mask on, hands washed (@ClionaQ) September 16, 2020
Say there is a few lads scratching there heads in the #Gardapressoffice tonight after our #Gardacommissioners brief cameo in #UnquietGraves. Not a good look for the Gardaí when the commissioner was actively involved in trying to bury report into Glennane Gang activities
— Seadhna Logan (@Seadhnalogan) September 16, 2020
I hope Neale Richmond, Patrick 0 Donovan and Varadkar are watching #UnquietGraves
— Eamon Melia (@EamonMelia) September 16, 2020
Watching #UnquietGraves
It is beyond comprehension how Drew Harris former Deputy Chief Constable of the RUC was appointed Garda Commissioner by @LeoVaradkar & @CharlieFlanagan— John McDonagh (@JohnMcDonagh111) September 16, 2020
Last night.
Some reaction to Garda Commissioner and former RUC Assistant Commissioner Drew Harris’s fleeting appearance (above right) in Unquiet Graves: The story of the Glenanne Gang, which was broadcast on RTÉ One.
The documentary details how rogue members of the RUC and UDR were centrally involved in the murder of the innocent civilians during the conflict in Northern Ireland.
It claimed state collusion facilitated the actions of known sectarian murderers in the killings of civilians in a campaign that was aimed at terrorising the most vulnerable in society.
This morning.
Slane, County Meath.
New Minister for Justice, Helen McEntee has her first meeting with Garda Commissioner Drew Harris at the down-at-heel Slane Garda station.
Someone‘s playing the poor mouth.
FIGHT!
Meanwhile…
The new minister said people should consider not entering a premises if it is too crowded and leave if they have been somewhere for an extended period of time.
“It means exercising judgement and self-control for your own sake, as well as the collective good,” she told the Irish Independent.
Ms McEntee’s comments follows images of crowds of people gathering outside pubs.
Saturday: Worth The Wait
Drew?
This afternoon.
Sandycove, County Dublin.
Garda Commissioner Drew Harris (left) and colleagues at the Forty Foot bathing place, which reopened this morning.
Anyone?
An Garda Síochána-bound PSNI Chief Superintendent Paula Hilman (left) and PSNI Chief Inspector Steven McCauley,
This afternoon.
The Policing Authority is pleased to announce that it has appointed Chief Superintendent Paula Hilman to the rank of Assistant Commissioner in the Garda Síochána, following her retirement from the PSNI at the end of this month….
…The Authority has also appointed Chief Inspector Steven McCauley, who is due to retire from the PSNI in the coming week, to the rank of Superintendent in the Garda Síochána.
Assistant Commissioner Hilman and Superintendent McCauley will take up their positions in the Garda Síochána in early May…
Is this a coup?
Two members of PSNI appointed to senior garda positions (RTÉ)
Pics: PSNI/Irish News
Garda Commissioner Drew Harris
Garda Commissioner Drew Harris has said that An Garda Síochána agrees with a PSNI assessment that Sinn Féin and the IRA are overseen by a provisional army council pic.twitter.com/2cfEOA2knu
— RTÉ News (@rtenews) February 21, 2020
“In national security matters and matters around the State, it is my obligation to report to the government as you would expect me to do.
Also, we have been contributing to the IRC (Independent Reporting Commission) reporting on the status of various paramilitary groups and we would hold with their opinion on these matters.
I am also aware of the PSNI and the British security services assessment and we do not differ from that view.”
Garda Commissioner Drew Harris
Harris agrees with PSNI assessment that Sinn Féin, IRA overseen by army council (RTÉ)
Meanwhile…
Why doesn’t McDonald disband the Army Council and the PIRA or if she cannot, repudiate them and sever all links and do so publicly and unequivocally? – ‘Harris agrees with PSNI that army council still oversees Sinn Féin and IRA’ https://t.co/iezbK6kLcS
— Leo Varadkar (@LeoVaradkar) February 21, 2020
Garda Commissioner Drew Harris
The High Court has directed Garda Commissioner Drew Harris to disclose the names and addresses of gardaí against whom he believes there is evidence of involvement in a smear campaign against a former colleague.
Ex-garda Keith Blythe had brought legal proceedings seeking to find out the identities of former colleagues who allegedly defamed him in messages circulated via WhatsApp and Facebook [in September 2018].
…The judge directed that the information be provided to Mr Blythe’s legal team before 1pm today, so that defamatory proceedings may be issued against the proposed defendants prior to the Friday expiry of a time limit in which to launch defamation cases against them.
Harris ordered to disclose names he believes involved in smear campaign (RTE)
