BATTEN DOWN CYBER HATCHES – IRELAND’S NEW FRONTLINE IN WARFARE
Ireland is at war and the battlefield is invisible, delegates at ‘Cyber Expo 2023’ heard, as Paul C. Dwyer, CEO of Team Cyber and President of the International Cyber Threat Task Force (ICTTF), delivered his keynote address, warning that the time for action is now and...
GARDA DMR CONTROL CENTRE RELOCATES TO HEUSTON STATION
The Garda Síochána’s new Control Centre for the Dublin Metropolitan Region, which has been relocated to the newly opened National Train Control Centre at Heuston Station in Dublin, represents another step forward in modernising the force and strengthening links with...
DATA PUBLISHED FOR FIRST TIME ON UNIDENTIFIED REMAINS
With over 856 unsolved missing persons cases live on the Garda Pulse system, while most are resolved quickly, many cases may go unsolved for a long time. However, the Department of Justice has now compiled the Unidentified...
MAYO MAN REACHES NEW HEIGHTS WITH ECO-POWERED DEFIBS
Defibrillators have been positioned on Croagh Patrick, each stored within their own eco-powered cabinets, thanks to Mayo engineer Darren Forde, a Community First Responder in his native Hollymount. When climbing the ‘Reek’ with his family last summer, he noticed the...
PROACTIVE APPROACH TO COMBAT HUMAN TRAFFICKING
Challenges to migrant integration and human trafficking problems were outlined by the International Organisation for Migration Ireland, as part of Dublin’s Inclusion and Integration Week 2022. During the event, D/Supt Derek Maguire from the Garda National Protective...
AMBULANCE SERVICE ON COURSE FOR NEXT LEVEL OF TRAINING
Macartan Hughes, a member of the National Ambulance Service (NAS) Paramedicine Directorate, outlines the “dramatic changes” he has seen in the level of training programmes for ambulance service personnel over the decades, with...