What is "gardai"

Usage examples of "gardai".

Tell you the truth, I’ll be as happy as Larry if this Women’s Action Movement crowd concentrate their efforts on the mob in the Department of Justice and leave us Gardai to get on with the work.

As with the newer working-class areas such as Inchicore and Crumlin and, more recently, Tallaght, much damage had been done to Garda work by Gardai themselves.

Young Guards, countrymen, fresh from training, had been thrown into areas like Ringsend and had been backed up and directed by Gardai also overwhelmingly from the country.

It was seldom that Gardai, even the crime ordinary detectives from the Central Detective Unit in the Castle, could twist arms with the Branch.

He had allotted nearly an hour to the Gardai, holding off calls and conferences for this interview.

Fifty Gardai to do the hotels along the promenade in Bray, all the entrances to the beach… the railway stations for a sighting.

She told Kilmartin that Gardai had found remains in the back seat of a burned-out car outside the town of Bray.

This was so because Gardai circulated through the Investigation Section as trainees, learning the trade and returning to their divisions.

The programmes had made much of leaks from disgruntled Gardai doing Border duty and oblique grumbles that the Army felt ill-equipped to detect and deal with incursions by British army units into the South.

A hand-drawn box followed, with a summary of ammunition in use by Gardai and the Army.

The Garda Special Branch units and squads had access to and training in machine pistols which used 9mm ammunition, a fit with the Walther PPK automatics which had rapidly gained favour over the last decade as Gardai used firearms more.

The report noted that it was likely that both Army and Gardai held some stocks of high-velocity ammunition which could be used with a handgun… but such rounds would almost certainly be employed for evaluation and comparison purposes, in a restricted environment such as laboratory testing.

Twice as many ordinary Gardai, mostly from stations in the Dublin Metropolitan South Divisions, would receive their instructions in turn from the policemen who had attended this meeting.

Kilmartin capitalized on Dublin people’s sharp facility for recognizing Gardai in any garb and Garda cars of plain hues and stared down drivers beside him at traffic lights.

The price of reassimilation was that he was expected to join in the Commissioner’s distaste for Irish-speakers, to join the fray in the rivalry between Gardai and Army.