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Budget 2017 Unlikely to Unwrap Any New Surprises! SÍOCHÁIN SÍOCHÁINThe Official Magazine of the Garda Síochána Retired Members’ Association BUDGET 2017 UNLIKELY TO UNWRAP ANY NEW SURPRISES! PARITY NEEDED ON GARDA PENSIONS STRATEGIC PLAN 2016-2021 GSRMA SOCIAL DATES FOR YOUR DIARY Winter 2016 WINTER 2015 ISSNISSN 1649-5896 WINTERwww.gardaretired.com 2015 ISSN 1649-5896 www.gardaretired.com €100 TO BE WON IN BUMPER CHRISTMAS CROSSWORD The Audiology Clinic Hearing, Tinnitus, Balance Difficulty in balance, feeling dizzy, vertigo Difficulty in hearing, unable to follow conversation in group/background noise Difficulty hearing even with the hearing aid Tinnitus or ringing sound in ear Hyperacusis or sensitive to noise/sounds The Audiology Clinic provides clinical diagnostic services to patient suffering with hearing, tinnitus or balance (dizziness/vertigo) problem. All patients attending the clinic are seen by Deepak Kumar, Audiological Scientist who specialises in assessing, diagnosing and managing hearing and balance disorder in adults and children. He is also expert in hearing aid evaluation and we prescribe hearing aid based on our diagnostic evaluation. CONTACT US: Tel: 083 3126299, DEEPAK KUMAR Fax: 01 554 7353, BSH, MD(AM), MSc(ASc), MIAA Email: [email protected] AUDIOLOGICAL SCIENTIST www.audiologyclinic.ie The Audiology Clinic locations: • Suite 9, Vista Primary Care, Naas, Co Kildare • The Meath Primary Care Centre, 4th Floor, Heytesbury St, Dublin 8 • The 4th Practice, Mallow Primary Healthcare Centre, Mallow, Co Cork EDITORIAL ALL ‘MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING’! Closely resembling the Shakespearean comedy ‘Much Ado About Nothing’, Budget 2017 has also combined elements of robust hilarity with more serious meditations on honour, shame and court politics, according to GSRMA General Secretary Paschal Feeney. uch Ado About Nothing’ was a comedic play by MWilliam Shakespeare written around 1598 or 1599. It is described by some as one of his best comedies, as it combined elements of robust hilarity with more serious meditations on honour, shame and court politics. This is how I can best describe Budget 2017 delivered in October, which was to pave the way into 2017 and beyond. It was the ideal opportunity for the Government to undo the “wrong” inflicted upon us as retired public servants. Absolutely nothing was done for retired public servants. The robust hilarity would be funny if it did bring with it the realisation that yet another year of austerity is being imposed on us. We are told by all the expert political and financial pundits that austerity is a thing of themselves. the past. Not so it seems if you are a retired member of The Irish Fiscal Authority has now entered the field An Garda Síochána. warning that Government policies are making the In this issue of ‘Siochain’ my ‘In-House Report’ outlines economy less resilient to a new crisis. Hard choices have the measly sum we can expect to reflect in our hard- to be made in the event of additional public-sector pay earned pensions from January next onwards. Since then increases, they will have to be offset by lower spending industrial relations in An Garda Síochána has taken off. and higher taxes. The unthinkable almost became a reality – a police This propaganda is, of course, driven by the faceless strike in Ireland. The doors of the Labour Relations officials in Merrion Street. While ICTU will look after Commission were flung open to facilitate a “deal”, to themselves and the Garda Staff Associations will do ensure the strike did not take place. An eleventh hour likewise, we as the forgotten retired public servants must deal was put together and this is to be voted on by the depend on the efforts of the Alliance of retired public staff association members of both the GRA and AGSI. We servants. await that outcome. This does not absolve all of us to strive to do what we can to restore our pensions in full. Negotiations between PUBLIC ENEMY NUMBER ONE the Department of Public Sector Expenditure and Reform, The Gardaí have become Public Enemy Number One this the Minister and his officials have indicated that it will be time, in terms of industrial relations because they have possibly 2022 before we can expect full and complete succeeded where others have failed. Now everyone is restoration. jumping on the bandwagon and all want a slice of the As I have outlined in the past, anomalies within FEMPI same cake. legislation continues and it seems will do so into the next When the staff associations were outside the tent decade. The message from Government is clear ‘if your when Lansdowne and Haddington were being agreed, income is above €65,000 this Government will continue the public service sector of ICTU were not demanding to restore your pay and pension, but if are in the bracket that they be allowed access to the table. Now, of course, between €34,500 and below that magic threshold of they are exclaiming from the heights that this is not €65,000 then you will continue to be squeezed’. acceptable. It is obvious that each group must look after Welcome to Ireland – the Land of Equality in 2017! Síocháin 1 SÍOCHÁIN SÍOCHÁINThe Official Magazine of the Garda Síochána Retired Members’ Association BUDGET 2017 UNLIKELY TO UNWRAP ANY NEW SURPRISES! PARITY NEEDED CONTENTS ON GARDA PENSIONS The Official Magazine of the Garda Síochána Retired Members’ Association STRATEGIC PLAN 2016-2021 GSRMA SOCIAL DATES FOR YOUR DIARY Winter 2016 WINTER 2015 ISSNISSN 1649-5896 WINTERwww.gardaretired.com 2015 Winter 2016 ISSN 1649-5896 www.gardaretired.com Volume 45 • Issue 4 • ISSN 1649-5896 €100 TO BE WON IN BUMPER CHRISTMAS CROSSWORD 4 CHRISTMAS GREETINGS 41 STRATEGIC PLAN November at Dublin’s Skylon Hotel, *President of Ireland Michael D. Matt Cosgrave, GSRMA President, with the adjudicators selecting ‘The Higgins outlines the goals and objectives Will’ by Bill Murphy (Dublin North *GSRMA President Matt Cosgrave of the Strategic Plan 2016-2021, Branch) as the overall winner. *Garda Commissioner Noirín produced by Central Committee to O’Sullivan guide the Association through the *Minister for Justice & Equality next five years. 53 GSRMA INSURANCE SCHEMES Frances Fitzgerald TD The GSRMA Home Group and *Garda Chaplain Fr Joe Kennedy Motor insurance schemes 43 ALLIANCE MEETINGS continue to grow and are proving A series of meetings with the very popular with the GSRMA 14 ASSOCIATION NEWS political parties, which were held membership, writes insurance by the Alliance to highlight the consultant Brian Halligan. Here unfairness of pension cuts and the he explains how GSRMA Group 26 IN-HOUSE REPORT full restoration of public service Insurance can deliver savings and pensions, are summarised by better cover for members. Central Committee Vice-Chairman Noel O’Sullivan. 55 GSRMA SOCIAL OUTINGS Garda pensions were never index- linked to Garda pay, but there is a custom and practice whereby COMPETITION ‘parity’ was applied to Garda EPIC Ireland tour and lunch for pensions, where the serving two at Ely Bar & Brasserie in members got an increase in basic Dublin’s Docklands to be won. Comprehensive details of the pay. However, this Government is GSRMA Holiday Planner for 2017, intent on breaking the parity link, plus reports from a recent outing writes Paschal Feeney, GSRMA 45 SHORT STORY AWARDS to Sligo and the first international General Secretary. holiday to Italy, arranged by the GSRMA Social Committee. 33 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 59 LANDMARK EVENTS Profile of Anna Casey, a member 39 ST PAUL’S GARDA CREDIT of the GSRMA for the past 40 UNION years, from Dublin North Branch Thinking of buying a new car? Here who is one of the longest serving you can compare the cost of a PCP members. Naas Branch member (Personal Contract Plan) with a St The inaugural GSRMA Short Story Mary Byrne, who hails from Kill, Paul’s Garda Credit Union Car Loan, Competition culminated in a prize Co. Kildare, recently celebrated her before buying your new car. awards ceremony on Friday 18 90th birthday. 2 Síocháin CONTENTS 60 LOOK BACK 81 GARDA MICHAEL CLERKIN Thousands of officers served in the Marking the 40th anniversary of GSRMA EDITORIAL Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC), but the death of Garda Michael Clerkin, few could have had the heroic yet who died in an IRA bombing BOARD sad career of Tobias O’Sullivan, who incident near the Laois-Offaly Paschal Feeney will be forever remembered as the border, a Mass was celebrated at St (Editor & General Secretary) ‘Hero of Kilmallock’. Michael’s Church in Portarlington on 15 October. 66 COMMISSIONER BROY 95 MEMORABILIA PAGE 97 MEMBERSHIP FORM 99 OBITUARY NOTICES Tim Bowe ARCHIVE SNAPSHOTS A memorial in memory of Colonel 110 Eamon Broy, Garda Commissioner from 1933 to 1938, was unveiled 113 IN THE FRAME in Coolegagen Cemetery near Rathangan, Co. Kildare by Charles Flanagan, Minister for Foreign 116 CROSSWORD Affairs, and Aine Broy, daughter of the late Eamon Broy in September. 129 POETRY CORNER Noel E. O’Sullivan 73 SGT DANIEL MAUNSELL At the opening of the 1916 Garden 131 BULLETIN BOARD of Remembrance at Inchigeela in Cork in May, a tree was planted by Karl Horgan, great great grandson of 136 NOTICEBOARD Sgt Daniel Maunsell, who was killed during the War of Independence. Garda Síochána Retired Members’ Association, SÍOCHÁIN is published by Ocean Publishing, 14 Upper Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin 2. 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