Donal O Cualain

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Gardaí say Deferred Prosecution Agreements avoid the risk of large companies with multiple workers going out of business as a consequence of prosecution. File photograph: Getty Images
Gardaí urge new offences in overhaul of white-collar crime

New criminal offences including “reckless trading” and “causing a financial institution to fail” should be introduced as part of an overhaul of white-(...)

Deputy Chief Constable with the Police Service of Northern Ireland Drew Harris who has been chosen as the next Garda Commissioner. Photograph: Getty
PSNI Deputy Chief Constable Drew Harris appointed Garda Commissioner

The Government has agreed the appointment of Drew Harris as the next Garda Commissioner at a salary of €250,000. Mr Harris, who is currently the Depu(...)

Several Garda sources point to the fact that crime is migrating online. Yet some Garda stations still do not have access to the Garda’s computer Pulse database. Photograph: Getty Images
Opinions divided in Garda about naming outsider as commissioner

It’s a September morning in 2014 and a group of young men and women shuffles into a small lecture theatre. They’re suited and booted and finally getti(...)

Garda James Morrisroe: “Nobody seems to know what’s going to happen so, from a security point of view and representing our members, it is a worry.”
No plan in place for policing a hard border, warns Garda chief

Garda management has currently no detailed policing plans in place for the Border in the event of a hard Brexit, the Acting Garda Commissioner, Donal (...)

Attendance at the official opening of the refurbished Cork courthouse on Anglesea Street. Photograph: Michael Mac Sweeney/Provision
Renovated and extended €34m Cork courthouse unveiled

A new €34.8 million criminal court complex in Cork will meet the city’s needs for decades to come, according to Minister for Justice Charlie Flanagan.(...)

Joanne Hayes, June 1985. A DNA test carried out late last year into Baby John, who was about five days old and had been dead for two days, proved Ms Hayes could not have been the mother. Photograph: Matt Kavanagh
Murder inquiry opens into death of ‘Baby John’ in Kerry in 1984

A full murder inquiry into the discovery of a baby boy on a beach outside Cahersiveen in Co Kerry more than 30 years ago has begun, following a Garda (...)

Joanne Hayes picutred at the Kerry babies tribunal tribunal in 1985. Photograph: Peter Thursfield.
Gardaí apologise to woman at centre of Kerry babies case

Acting Garda Commissioner Donal O’Cualáin has apologised to Kerry woman Joanne Hayes for her treatment by gardaí over 30 years ago when she was arrest(...)

Politics in 2017: A year of living dangerously

The political landscape shifted towards the end of the year. First, in favour of Fianna Fáil, when Leo Varadkar appeared ready to cause a general elec(...)

Deputy Garda commissioner John Twomey who appeared before the Oireachtas Committee on Justice onThursday. Photograph: Collins
Examination of O’Sullivan’s private email not shared with department

Gardaí conducted an inquiry into the use of a private email account by the former Garda commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan but did not notify the Departme(...)

Acting Garda commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin will tell a committee that more than 3,800 motorists wrongly convicted of motoring offences are to have their cases heard this December. Photograph: Collins
Acting Garda commissioner to appear before justice committee

Both Garda management and rank-and-file members must accept responsibility for the falsification of breath-test figures, the acting Garda commissioner(...)

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