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Irish Taoiseach Simon Harris announces the deployment of 100 police officers to the border with Northern Ireland amid fears that thousands of migrants might flee the UK in order to avoid deportation to Rwanda. Ireland also declares the United Kingdom a "safe country" so that asylum seekers can be deported back to the UK.
2024-05-1

Irish Agriculture Minister Dara Calleary resigns after attending a golf dinner with more than 80 people, which came a day after Dublin announced a tightening of lockdown restrictions. Gardaí are now investigating possible breaches of COVID-19 regulations on the event.
2020-08-21

The Irish government agrees the terms of reference for the Commission of Investigation into the Garda phone recordings controversy.
2014-04-8

The Department of Justice releases a letter sent on 10 March from then Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan in which he warns them of the recording of phone calls at Garda stations.
2014-04-1

Taoiseach Enda Kenny tells the Dáil the Prison Service recorded conversations between inmates and their solicitors.
2014-04-1

The Irish Government will establish a Cabinet committee to examine proposals for an independent police authority and other justice reforms, which will be chaired by the Taoiseach.
2014-04-1

Martin Callinan resigns as Commissioner of Ireland's Garda Síochána (national police) over his "disgusting" comment about whistleblowers made to a parliamentary committee. Callinan had also been involved in controversy over the recent surveillance-bugging of GSOC.
2014-03-25

An inquiry into the 1989 Jonesborough ambush finds that members of the Garda Síochána colluded with the IRA in the shooting of two RUC officers as they crossed the Irish border.
2013-12-3

In Dublin, dozens of complaints are made about the "heavy-handed" tactics of "excessive force" deployed by gardaí following last week's nationwide student demonstration against a government-proposed fee increase, the largest such demonstration in a generation.
2010-11-9

Former Irish Green Party leader Trevor Sargent resigns as Minister of State for Food and Horticulture after admitting "an error of judgment" involving his contacts with the Garda Síochána.
2010-02-23