Gardaí march in protest to Government Buildings today

The Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors (AGSI) marched in Dublin today as part of industrial action agreed last month at the group’s AGM.

Members of the Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors held a rally on Merrion Street where a letter was handed into Minister for Justice Frances Fitzgerald.

It is illegal for gardaí to hold a protest march in uniform so they wore plain clothes but in blue.

AGSI president Antoinette Curran estimated the crowd at 600 by the time they reached Government Buildings.

She said: "The Government were supposed to engage with us in relation to pay, they have failed to do so and after three years of waiting for that to happen, our members are highly frustrated and have now taken to the streets to vent that anger.”