Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Independent)

I too express my deepest sympathies to the family, friends and colleagues of the late Garda Ciaran Jones. I went to Blessington this morning and asked the chief superintendent if there was anything more people could do or if he needed assistance mobilising volunteers. It is an extraordinary measure of the young man that the chief superintendent told me that such was the response from Garda Jones's community they could not handle any more volunteers.

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