Trainee Gardaí Fight Dismissal Over Handcuffing Incident

0:00On April 16th, four trainee guard eye just won high court permission to fight their dismissals after getting fired for hand-cuffing a fellow student at the Templemore College last year. Worry, Callahan, David Hanley, Alan Kenney, and Derrick O'Connell have their contracts cut by the Guardic Commissioner back on December 11th, 20th. 25. Over the June 5th incident. They say it all went down during some light-hearted horseplay in a dorm room where they practice hand-cuffing with the guy's full consent. Even egged, on by an instructor to drill the skill outside class time. The trainees argue the whole probe was botched from the jump. With inspectors jumping to guilt before hearing them out, no chance to question them. Complaint and zero word on appeal rights. They call it a breach of fair play, ignoring their solid training record up to that point. No harm done to anyone they insist, just a minor mix-up blown way out of proportion by folks calling it the worst thing they'd seen in decades on the job.

1:00Justice Mary Rose Geardy, greenlit their judicial review challenge this week, pushing the case to May for the full showdown on whether the firings. Stick or get tossed.