{"id":19740,"date":"2025-08-24T06:36:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T06:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/19740\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T06:36:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T06:36:14","slug":"cork-to-get-25-new-gardai-but-more-called-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/19740\/","title":{"rendered":"Cork to get 25 new garda\u00ed but more called for"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cork has been allocated 25 new garda\u00ed at the latest graduation from the Garda Training College in Templemore, with 20 going to the city and five to the county.<\/p>\n

In the city, seven new Garda graduates are to be assigned to Anglesea Street Garda Station, five to Gurranabraher, and four each to Mayfield and Togher.<\/p>\n

In the county, two graduates are going to Midleton, two to Mallow, and one to Bandon.<\/p>\n

The attestation ceremony saw the graduation of 154 \u2018probationers\u2019 \u2014 sworn garda\u00ed who must complete two years\u2019 probation \u2014 of whom 132, or 79%, are male and 22 are female.<\/p>\n

Speaking to The Echo, Taoiseach and Cork South Central TD Miche\u00e1l Martin said he warmly welcomed the allocation of additional garda\u00ed to Cork.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs the numbers have ramped up in Templemore, more and more garda\u00ed are being appointed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\n \u201cThere was a focus on Dublin initially and the impact of that has been significant, and now this 20 will create momentum in Cork city.\n <\/p>\n

\u201cHopefully, over time, we can add even more to that in the time ahead,\u201d said the Taoiseach.<\/p>\n

Last month, Mr Martin told this newspaper that he had engaged with justice minister Jim O\u2019Callaghan and Garda Commissioner Drew Harris, and he had been promised 20 probationers for Cork.<\/p>\n

Between December 31, 2022, and May 31, 2025, the number of garda\u00ed declined by 46 in the Cork City Division \u2014 to 663 \u2014 and by 43 in the Cork North and Cork West divisions \u2014 to 616.<\/p>\n

In allocations in March and June of this year, Cork city received three probationers each time, while the county also received three on both allocations.<\/p>\n

The Garda Representative Association (GRA), which represents the majority of garda rank-and-file officers, has repeatedly called for a greater allocation of resources to Cork.<\/p>\n

P\u00e1draig Harrington, GRA delegate for the Cork City Division, said the GRA was \u201cdelighted\u201d at the news, but wanted to see the allocation repeated in subsequent graduations.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe would like to see it replicated again in the next batch that are due out in November, and the next four or five batches that are due out,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe would need to be getting 20 to 30 each time to bring the numbers back up to sufficient levels.<\/p>\n

\u201cThree or five coming to Cork city out of Templemore is useless, you\u2019re not even touching the surface of problems.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thomas Gould, Sinn F\u00e9in TD for Cork North Central, said 20 garda\u00ed was \u201ca drop in the ocean\u201d and not sufficient for Cork\u2019s needs.<\/p>\n

\n \u201cThe Government is trying to make this a good news story, but 20 isn\u2019t going to keep up with the rate that we\u2019re losing garda\u00ed in the city,\u201d he said. \u201cWe needed a minimum of 100 [new] garda\u00ed.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

S\u00e9amus McGrath, Fianna F\u00e1il TD for Cork South Central, said that after recent \u201cdisappointing\u201d allocations, the news represented \u201ca turning of the corner\u201d for Cork.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s a step in the right direction, and we need to build on this into the future,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Colm Burke, Fine Gael TD for Cork North Central, said he was very happy to see more garda\u00ed for Cork.<\/p>\n

\u201cA visible garda presence is central to the Government\u2019s aim to build safe and secure communities,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The latest graduation brings the national garda strength to 14,408 sworn garda\u00ed, while there are 3,672 garda staff members and 296 garda reserves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cork has been allocated 25 new garda\u00ed at the latest graduation from the Garda Training College in Templemore,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,12315,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-19740","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-cork-garda","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-latest-news","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}