Eight Gardaí To Be Honoured For Bravery
Eight gardaí will today be awarded medals for bravery in the line of duty.
Three of the medals are being awarded posthumously and the eight honours recognise six incidents of bravery that occurred between 1931 to 2022.
The Scott Medal is the highest honour the Garda Commissioner can bestow and is awarded for ‘most exceptional bravery and heroism involving the risk of life in the execution of duty’.
Two gold medals, one silver and five bronze are being awarded this morning.
One of those is a Gold medal, which will be awarded to the family of Superintendent John Curtin, who was shot dead in Tipperary in 1931.
Garda Niamh Connaughton and Garda Warren Farrell will be awarded Bronze medals for their roles in disrupting a violent armed robbery in Clondalkin in 2013.
