Garda whistleblower Lois West has said she felt like “a severed limb” who had just been “cut off” by her superiors after she raised her head “above the parapets” and testified to the Oireachtas about errors in homicide data. “They never wanted me back, I was too honest, I had too much integrity,” West told the Workplace Relations Commission on Thursday. West was joint deputy head of the Garda Síochána Analysis Service (GSAS) at assistant principal grade before taking extended sick leave. At the resumed hearing of her case on Thursday, West said there had been plans to expand the GSAS to meet the needs of An Garda Síochána. She said that she went back to work and “struggled on”, before her face broke out in “a very severe case of perioral dermatitis”.

Source: The Irish Times March 06, 2026 16:12 UTC