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Uniform gardaà will serve as a high-visibility front line on the streets, with the Garda helicopter monitoring how crowds were building and moving in and around Dublin city centre.
There was no specific intelligence to suggest that violence was being planned and it was hoped that events would pass off peacefully.
Hosting parties
Gardaà have also urged people to desist from hosting or attending parties or other social gatherings amid concerns about the slow rate of decline in Covid-19 cases despite a lengthy lockdown.
Deputy Garda Commissioner Anne Marie McMahon, who is in charge of policing and security, appealed to people to approach St Patrickâs Day in a manner that did not compromise recent efforts to reduce the spread of the disease.
Taoiseach and Greens say they have confidence in Varadkar Sinn Féin calls for resignation of Tánaiste over leaking of GP contract
Tue, Mar 16, 2021, 01:00
Tánaiste Leo Varadkar: he has insisted he has not broken the law. Photograph: Julien Behal Photography
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The Taoiseach and the Green Party have both said they have confidence in Leo Varadkar in the wake of Sinn Féin’s call for him to resign amid renewed controversy over his leak of a confidential draft of a GP contract.
Man who sexually abused three granddaughters jailed for 11 years Court heard grandfather bribed four-year-old granddaughter with sweets
Tue, Mar 16, 2021, 14:59 Fiona Ferguson
The court was told the man made one of the children watch pornographic videos with him. File photograph: Cyril Byrne/The Irish Times
A grandfather who sexually abused three of his young granddaughters has been jailed for 11 years.
One of the girls, who was regularly abused by her grandfather after school, told the Central Criminal Court in her victim-impact statement that her working parents had put their trust in her grandfather but he had bribed her with sweets and made her do things no four-year-old should do.