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Over 6,300 apply to become a Garda with a huge number in the 35 and 49 age bracket

The recent Garda recruitment drive to get greater numbers training in Templemore paid dividends with approximately 6,380 (6,381) people have applied to be a Garda under the recent recruitment competition. It is only ten months since the last Garda ...

12 Feb 2024 at 14:01

National News

Gardaí launch recruitment campaign for hundreds of clerical officer roles

An Garda Síochána has confirmed that it is launching a public competition to hire up to 400 clerical officers across locations nationwide. The roles are available in a range of areas such as HR, IT, finance and procurement, internal audit, ...

06 Sept 2023 at 11:22

Local News

Have you got what it takes to be a Garda? Check out this account of what it involves!

The drive is on this February to highlight the need for new applicants to An Garda Síochána and to entice some new people into the force. Members of the media were invited to attend the Garda College last week to meet Trainees and ...

16 Feb 2024 at 10:00

Templemore

Over 11,000 apply to attend the Garda Training College in Templemore as new recruits

Over 11,000 people have applied to become a member of An Garda Síochána in its latest recruitment competition. The competition, which closed for applications on March 16 2022, received 11,075 applications up from 5,197 from the ...

30 Apr 2022 at 17:00

National News

Justice minister asks people in ‘sedentary’ jobs to consider 'exciting' careers as gardaí

The justice minister has appealed to people in “sedentary” jobs to consider becoming gardai, ahead of the launch of a new recruitment campaign. Jim O’Callaghan, who was appointed Justice Minister on Thursday, said despite ...

28 Jan 2025 at 17:56

National News

Final call: Opportunity for Irish citizens up to 50 years old to join Gardaí closes tomorrow

An application to join An Garda Síochána for Irish men and women up to 50 years of age closes tomorrow (Thursday February 8). The recruitment competition made headlines as the first campaign to welcome applications from ...

07 Feb 2024 at 17:16

National News

Adorable garda recruit hits the beat in 'mini uniform' hand-sewn by his mammy

Christmas came early for a little Louth boy when he became the county's newest recruit to An Garda Siochana. The streets of Drogheda are a much happier place thanks to young Kayden's patrols, and his adorable "mini ...

30 Nov 2023 at 12:30

National News

Surge in number of older people applying to become Gardaí in latest recruitment drive

A surprising number of people across Ireland have submitted applications to join An Garda Síochána. Six thousand three hundred people have reportedly applied in the latest recruitment campaign, which was the first ...

13 Feb 2024 at 10:34

National News

Garda recruitment campaign raises maximum age for applicants to 50

A new round of garda recruitment opened on Monday, increasing the maximum age for applicants from 35 to 50. The allowance for trainee gardai has also been increased from 184 euro to 305 euro per week. A 400,000 ...

15 Jan 2024 at 14:26

National News

Garda recruitment efforts ‘quite strong’ ahead of Thursday deadline

Efforts to recruit gardai are “quite strong” as the current drive to boost numbers in the force is due to come to a close this week. This is the third year in a row that an annual Garda recruitment drive has ...

06 Feb 2024 at 16:31

National News

Men and women up to 50 years of age can apply to become Gardaí from next week

Men and women up to 50 years of age can apply to become Gardaí from next week. The recruitment competition - which opens next Monday via publicjobs.ie - is the first which welcomes applications from those ...

09 Jan 2024 at 16:55

National News

2025 Garda recruitment campaign launched with 5,000 new gardaí to be recruited over 5 years

The 2025 Garda recruitment campaign will officially open for applications on Thursday, 6 February. The Budget 2025 saw the provision of over €2.48 billion to An Garda Síochána to help support the ...

29 Jan 2025 at 16:21

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