The Justice Minister Dermot Ahern has pulled out of scheduled appearance at the annual conference of the Garda Representative Association (GRA), over the content of an intended speech.
Dermot Ahern has refused to attend the conference in Limerick this evening, because of the “tenor” of a speech which the GRA President Michael O’ Boyce was due to make.
In the address, which will not be made now, the President of the GRA accused the Government of “national sabotage”, “corrupted by years of power”.
Michael O’Boyce also said the “vitriolic attack from Government” on public sector workers over the past year and a half is verging “on incitement to hatred”.
In an unprecedented attack, Michael O’ Boyce said Fianna Fáil had sacrificed the greater good and prosperity of Ireland to protect “economic traitors”.
And he added that the embargo on recruitment of new gardaí is “pushing the force to the brink of disaster”.
According to a GRA spokesperson, the Justice Minister Dermot Ahern for whom this address was intended for – says he won’t now be coming to the conference, due to the “tenor” of the intended speech.
The GRA says it’s disappointed by the Ministers decision.
