Appeal for mandatory CCTV surveillance at Irish clubs and bars

A call was made for licences for late-night events not to be granted unless the businesses could show that they are providing the CCTV cameras.

Footage from the cameras would be particularly helpful to gardai investigating assaults and other public order incidents which took place in and around those premises.

Garda delegates maintained that a lot of people are afraid to go to the gardai to give evidence against those involved in public disorder, while others might not be able to fully remember what had taken place the night before, as a result of being intoxicated.