Tributes paid to Former Assistant Garda Commissioner John O’Driscoll who died today [Video]

TRIBUTES HAVE BEEN paid to retired senior garda John O’Driscoll, who died suddenly today.

In a statement, Garda Commission Drew Harris said O’Driscoll, who served for 41 years and was a Garda Assistant Commissioner, was “an outstanding member of An Garda Síochána”.

Minister for Justice Helen McEntee said she was “very sad and shocked” at the loss of the veteran garda.

O’Driscoll led Garda operations against the Kinahan cartel and other organised drug crime groups in Ireland during the final years of his service. He retired in 2022 after serving as Assistant Commissioner for Special Crime Operations since 2016. 

O’Driscoll was due to publish his memoirs entitled ‘On Duty’, next month.

He began in the Assistant Commissioner role during the deadly gang feud between rival drug cartels in Dublin in 2016, shortly after the fatal attack on the Regency Hotel in Santry earlier that year.

In a statement this evening, …