Fianna Fáil councillor Mary Hoade has been elected the new chairwoman of the County Galway Joint Policing Committee.
At the first meeting of the committee, Cllr Hoade proposed a motion to be sent to the Department of Justice that the JPC “strongly objects” to the proposal to close any one-off rural Garda stations as suggested in the McCarthy Report.
Cllr Hoade has stated that many such stations cover a large part of rural Ireland.
“The closure of any of those,” she said, “and the absence of the presence of a garda in the area is not acceptable.”
