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Mon 12 Dec 2009GRA to ballot gardaí on possible industrial action
Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern said the Government would "pursue anything within the law" in relation to industrial action by gardaí.
Rank and file gardaí are to be balloted on taking industrial action despite such a ballot or any withdrawal of labour by a Garda member being a criminal offence punishable by up to five years imprisonment.
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