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Garda-PSNI cooperation

Summary

Senator Sean D. Barrett offers condolences and highlights calls for full Garda and PSNI cooperation following Detective Garda Donohoe’s murder.

I join in the expressions of sympathy to Senator Henry, the de Buitléar, Heffernan and Donohoe families and the Garda Síochána which looks after us so well not only in this House but throughout the country. As we have been hearing, Detective Garda Donohoe was a man in the best traditions of service to the Garda Síochána, his community and the GAA. Yesterday Raymond McCartney, the Deputy Chairperson of the Committee for Justice in Stormont, who is a member of Sinn Féin, conveyed to the full house there calls for the fullest liaison and co-operation between the Garda and the PSNI in the wake of this appalling murder. I hope the Leader will convey our appreciation for their concern about what happened over the weekend. It is deeply ironic that the last time the two police services on the island worked together was to see off our team for the Special Olympics which was hardly 24 hours before. It is appalling that such a tragedy struck. We wish our colleagues in Stormont and in the two police forces every success in finding the people who committed such an appalling crime.

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