It will be the first time An Garda Siochana owns its own water cannon – previously the force borrowed two from the PSNI. The cannon will be capable of each carrying some 5,200 litres of water but are smaller than the two cannon borrowed from the PSNI.
Gardai are set to splash out up to €1.5 million on two new water cannons to take on rioters, it has emerged. Commissioner Drew Harris yesterday confirmed a Mirror story that the force was buying the brand new vehicles from a European manufacturer – and they would be on the streets here in around four months.
READ MORE: CCTV captures disturbing hammer attack at Dublin bus depot as gardai launch manhunt During the violent riots, which began following a knife attack on three young children and a school care assistant were stabbed outside a primary school on Dublin's Parnell Square, rioters were involved in multiple incidents of vandalism, arson and looting in the city centre as well as assaults on gardaí.
“At the same time, neither do we want to be dependent on having to loan a vehicles when we should be self sufficient ourselves.” Commissioner Harris said the vast majority had been peaceful, however. He said: “The great majority of protests pass off peacefully and what I'd like to say is that we've had situations which could have been volatile and which could have proven to be very difficult and they were successfully policed through.
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