Cops ‘missed Joan protest risk’
GARDA intelligence should have predicted the risk of the water charge protest involving then Tanaiste Joan Burton, the force said.
Solidarity TD Paul Murphy and five others were found not guilty of falsely imprisoning the ex-labour Party leader and her then assistant Karen O’connell on November 15, 2014, in Jobstown, West Dublin.
A Garda review said: “From the benefit of hindsight, it is clear that the risk of a serious outburst of public disorder was likely to occur around this time.”