Old Tensions Surface at Police Graduation
From Times Wire Reports
A graduation ceremony for the first trainees for Northern Ireland’s revamped police force was hit by controversy when the visiting commissioner of the Irish Republic’s police made an unscheduled speech.
Pro-British Protestants said recently retired chief constable Sir Ronnie Flanagan had in effect “hijacked” the ceremony by allowing Commissioner Pat Byrne of the Irish Republic’s Garda Siochana to give a brief speech.
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