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Ben Dumigan, Castlemartyr; with Amy O’Reilly and Cian Ahern, both Dungourney, enjoying the fun at the St Patrick’s Dayparade in Midleton. See pages two, three, four, five, six, seven and 19. Picture: David Keane

County areaslack gardacover in cutsMallow gardaí have five cars instead of 12

LARGE areas of ruralCork are being leftwithout garda cover be-cause of a lack of gardacars and manpower.

That is the claim of longserving gardaí outside of thecity, who are concerned thatareas affected by garda stationclosures are not gettingpatrolled regularly becausethere aren’t enough gardacars.

For example, the Mallow dis-

By ANN MURPHYSecurity Correspondent

because they will havereached the 300,000 km limit.

One source said the trafficcorps is regularly left with apersonnel carrier, known as apaddywagon, which would notbe as high-powered as a regu-lar traffic corps car.

He refuted comments byboth the Minister for JusticeAlan Shatter and the GardaCommissioner that the gardaforce is well resourced.

He said: “We are not fully● Continued on page two.

trict which takes in Mallowtown, Buttevant, Charlevilleand a large rural area, shouldhave 12 cars in its fleet but hasjust five, according to sourceswithin the force.

And gardaí say that at leasttwo of the current cars at-tached to the district are justmonths away from having tobe taken out of the garda fleet

Mancriticalafterbeing hitby car inYoughalA MAN was in a seriouscondition at Cork Uni-versity Hospital thismorning after an acci-dent in Youghal.The 28-year-old wasstruck by a car at UpperStrand at around 8pmlast night.He was taken by ambu-lance to Cork UniversityHospital.The area remainedsealed off this morningfor a forensic collisioninvestigation.