
Update 1pm: Acting Commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin has paid tribute to the outgoing Commissioner Noirin O’Sullivan and her focus on modernising the Force.

Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin has called on rank-and file gardaí to produce evidence that they were pushed by senior management to fake alcohol breath tests.

An Garda Síochána has today issued an appeal for information in relation to false breath tests.

The GRA has described the collation of false breath-test data as an “ill-considered misuse of scant resources”.

Up to 1,000 gardaí could be investigated over the recent breath test controversy.

Latest: The Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said the Garda Commissioner still has his confidence, despite a damning report on the breath testing scandal.

“Coaching” sessions for Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan and for other senior officers to deal with Oireachtas committees were among €140,000 worth of PR services paid for by the taxpayer.

The Garda Ombudsman (Gsoc) is set to bring in outside financial investigators and take on more staff to carry out a probe into suspected fraudulent activity involving a secret Garda account.

Leo Varadkar has issued a thinly veiled threat at Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan, saying people losing their jobs over scandals “needs to happen a little bit more in the public sector”.

A TD says she has new evidence proving that Gardaí must have known about the true number of roadside breath tests three years ago.

Latest: The head of internal audit in the Gardaí says he does have confidence in the current Commissioner Noirín O'Sullivan and Deputy Commissioner Dónal O'Cualáin.

The tribunal investigating an alleged smear campaign against Garda whistleblower Sergeant Maurice McCabe has encountered a setback.

The head of the new Policing Commission has been accused of being part of the problems in the force.

“I think we need to get beyond the finger-pointing and the name-calling."

The Justice Minister has compared Fianna Fáil's position on the Garda Commissioner to Donald Trump's sacking of the FBI director.

A senior Government Minister has warned Fianna Fáil they can't decide the Tánaiste's future.

Former Garda commissioners including Martin Callinan could be hauled before a powerful Dáil committee over the Garda college financial scandal due to the scale of the crisis.

Latest: Labour leader Brendan Howlin has said members of the Government are expressing confidence in the Garda Commissioner with "increasing reluctance".

Labour TD Alan Kelly has today called on Fianna Fáil to “do the right thing” and withdraw support for the Government.

There are fresh calls for the Garda Commissioner to resign this afternoon, after more contradictions of her evidence to the Public Accounts Committee.