{"id":355685,"date":"2026-03-20T06:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T06:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/355685\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T06:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T06:45:09","slug":"tanaiste-says-clare-and-limerick-gardai-deserve-explanation-after-six-year-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/355685\/","title":{"rendered":"T\u00e1naiste Says Clare And Limerick Garda\u00ed &#8220;Deserve Explanation&#8221; After Six Year Probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The T\u00e1naiste says he believes there should be an inquiry into the charges brought against eleven Midwest Garda\u00ed, including three with Clare links, who were accused of perverting the course of justice.<\/p>\n<p>Four defendants, along with a retired superintendent, were found not guilty in January in the long-running case relating to the alleged termination of tickets for road traffic offences.<\/p>\n<p>Three additional Garda\u00ed in the Limerick division, who were due to stand trial on similar charges, were yesterday informed by the Director of Public Prosecutions that all charges against them are being dropped.<\/p>\n<p>The Justice Minister yesterday told the D\u00e1il that an inquiry <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clare.fm\/news\/justice-minister-says-inquiry-into-clare-and-limerick-garda-trial-not-in-anyones-best-interest\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wouldn\u2019t be in \u201canyone\u2019s best interest.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Labour TD Alan Kelly once again told the lower house this lunchtime that lives have been \u201cdestroyed\u201d as a result of the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>In response, T\u00e1naiste Simon Harris said he agrees with the Taoiseach that an inquiry should be held and that the Garda\u00ed involved \u201cdeserve an explanation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the full D\u00e1il exchange here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The T\u00e1naiste says he believes there should be an inquiry into the charges brought against eleven Midwest Garda\u00ed,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-355685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}