FOLLOWING THE GOVERNMENT’S approval of a number of new senior Garda appointments yesterday, chief superintendents Gerard Phillips and Dónall Ó Cualáin have both been promoted to the position of Assistant Commissioner.
The new roles will be based in the eastern and southern regions.
Philips, who has been working out of Ballymun, was recently involved in a High Court battle with a shooting enthusiast who he refused to grant a gun licence to. The legal challenge was eventually settled.
Ó Cualáin has been central to the Garda crackdown on drug-related crime in Galway city. He has been in charge of policing all Garda divisions in the county.
Minister for Justice Alan Shatter approved the appointment of the two Assistant Commissioners, as well as eight Chief Superintendents and 23 Superintendents after a cabinet meeting yesterday.
The eight chief superintendents have been named as:
The 23 new superintendents are:
Shatter has advised that the force’s numbers will be 13,511 by the end of this month. Despite the reduction in personnel, he said that the new appointments “reflect the commitment of the government to maintain the supervisory and management ranks…at the highest level possible.”
Minster for Public Expenditure and Reform Brendan Howlin has also sanctioned the appointment of replacements at the sergeant and inspector levels by the Garda Commissioner.
However there remains at least another 28 vacant posts across the top ranks of An Garda Síochána.
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