{"id":637443,"date":"2026-08-14T20:14:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T20:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/637443\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T20:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T20:14:12","slug":"gardai-were-advised-to-speak-to-nigerian-male-head-of-household","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/637443\/","title":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed were advised to speak to Nigerian male head of household"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Official Garda training advised officers engaging with the Nigerian community to speak to the male head of the household first, noting that it was \u201cnot uncommon\u201d for men to have more than one wife.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to Freedom of Information materials received by Gript Media this week, An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na\u2019s internal booklet offered an \u201cintroductory insight\u201d into various minority groups living in Ireland. While the materials were released to Gript this week, the training document itself is undated. It is currently unclear if this booklet remains in active circulation for Garda trainees today, or if it represents historical guidance. Gript has contacted An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na for clarification.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">This article is premium content<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Get unlimited access to Gript<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Support Gript and get exclusive content, full archives and an ad-free experience<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"v-btn v-btn--block v-btn--has-bg theme--light v-size--large accent mb-6\" href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/membership\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Already a member? <a href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/?memberful_endpoint=auth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign in here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Official Garda training advised officers engaging with the Nigerian community to speak to the male head of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[73],"tags":[83593,4391,79,18,19,56,17,6395],"class_list":["post-637443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-asylum","tag-ben-scallan","tag-business","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-immigration","tag-ireland","tag-migration"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117095698952613589","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637443","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=637443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}