Gardai to take part in parade to mark 100th anniversary of policing handover

About 450 gardai are due to participate in a parade marking 100 years because the first Garda commissioner led Eire’s new police service into Dublin Citadel for the handover of policing duties from the British.

The gardai will retrace the steps of Michael Staines and his power, which marched from the Gresham Lodge in O’Connell Road to Dublin Citadel by way of Dame Road a century in the past.

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They may even replicate a photograph of Mr Staines and the power as they arrived by the Palace Gate.

The Civic Guard, shaped by Michael Collins and the Irish Authorities in 1922, was later renamed An Garda Siochana.

The parade will embody members of the Garda band, the ceremonial unit, officers corps and different models.