Report shows Gardai are not doing their jobs.

In court half the week dealing with the case load developed. Which there really isn't a workaround for other than even more manpower

Christ, that'll have the MAMILs up in arms 😂

Everyone needs to relax, they're just using a bit of discretion, its how Ireland works, calm down and don't take the piss on the roads.

prisons are overflowing which suggests most Gardai are doing their jobs despite poor leadership, poor judiciary support ( sometimes shocking ) and known morale.

Roads Policing has always attracted the older cohort who have seen and done it all and are counting down the days. There are notable exceptions of course and anybody that follows Garda Twitter will know where the exceptions are.

As another poster said it’s the Craggy island within the Gardai.

The road from Letterkenny to Bundoran is infamous for reckless driving and excessive speeding, rare to see many Garda on it.

Built like a runway in parts, which really doesn't help. Five across overtaking manoeuvres aren't unheard of (vehicle driving in hard shoulder each way, being passed by someone in the lane; fifth car nutter going down the middle) on the widest/straightest bits. Some of which have loads of side accesses that crossing traffic can appear from at any moment.

If I don't see one on the Ballyshannon Bypass and/or between there and Donegal Town tomorrow I'd be amazed.

Discretion? It appears they couldn't be arsed doing their jobs, even though they were monitored and that the management in the Gardai either have no control over them or couldn't give a ****.

Honestly in recent times this thing of seeing the cars on the on ramps or smaller ramps means nothing, the garda in them cars are literally just on their phones and using the presence of the vehicle as a deterrent. I see it all the time and even once saw one catching some z's.

How is Helen MacEntee still a minister and now in charge of education, won't somebody think of the children?

Their hands are tied by the laws and regulations. If the gardai chase scumbags they are disciplined for driving fast and banned so how can they do their job. The Gradai are kot allowed this and that and discipline and that crap

It should come as no surprise to anyone that traffic Gardai don’t want to even attempt to enforce drink driving laws . The way in which they are written is a minefield - read any of the High Court challenges to see the hurdles that have to be jumped to lead to a possible conviction.
The 2018 changes made it completely illogical for AGS to intervene unless the driver is obviously so drunk as to be a danger. No Guard wants to impose a disqualification on someone who isn’t impaired , yet this is what the law requires.

Road Traffic legislation amended to impose mandatory disqualification as opposed to penalty points for drink driving offences .This has resulted in many anomalies including drivers being disqualified while having simultaneously produced a breath sample that was under the prescribed limit and a blood sample that was in excess of the limit .

You are being selective in quoting what I have written . If the motorist is simultaneously under the legal limit by way of a breath sample provided whilst under the same arrest ?
Any Guard with a ounce of common sense will not engage with that process unless they are confident that he / she isn’t wasting their time