New Superintendents are chosen for Sligo, Ballymote
Sligo’s Garda Superintendent, Ray McMahon is off to a new position at Garda Headquarters in Dublin following his promotion to Chief Superintendent.
The new Chief Superintendent spent around two and half years as Superintendent in Sligo.
His promotion is one of a number of promotions and changes announced by An Garda Siochana.
The Carrick-on-Shannon native is moving to the Garda National Roads Policing Bureau, based at Garda Headquarters in the Phoenix Park.
Chief Supt McMahon (49) spent a good deal of his career in the Longford/Westmeath Division and also in inner city Dublin where he worked in plain clothes and drugs units.
He also spent some time in the Cavan/ Monaghan Division.
He was no stranger to Sligo, having been an Inspector attached to the Assistant Commissioner’s office for the Northern Region on Pearse Road since 2010. He had been a Superintendent since 2013.
Sligo’s new Superintendent is Goretti Sheridan, a native of Rathmullan, County Donegal who has been Superintendent in Castlerea, County Roscommon since May 2019.
It was in Castlerea where Detective Garda Colm Horkan was shot dead while on duty with his own gun in an incident on June 17 th.
Before being appointed to Castlerea, the new Supt was an Inspector based in Letterkenny from April 2013 to May 2019.
She was a sergeant from October 2004 to April 2013 in Tallaght and worked in both the drugs and community policing units.
She graduated from the force in October 1994 and spent her first ten years in Shankill, Bray, Dun Laoighaire and with the Immigration Bureau in Dublin.
Ballymote is also getting a new Superintendent.
Padraic Burke is returning to the station on promotion where the Galway native previously served as Inspector.
He was also stationed in Roscommon in the recent past.
In another promotion, Tom Colsh who was D/Insp in Sligo and Inspector in Boyle will be taking over as Superintendent in Castlerea.