Stepaside Garda station to reopen next month

The station has been closed for almost seven years.

Garda Commissioner Drew Harris has announced that Stepaside Garda Station will reopen on 9 March, less than two weeks from today. Harris was speaking at a Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown Joint Policing Committee meeting today (27 February) when he confirmed the news. According to a spokesperson for An Garda Síochána, Stepaside Garda Station will run a fully operational 24-7 policing service, with the public office opening from 7am to 9pm daily. There will be one sergeant on duty at the station, as well as 15 Gardaí and a Roads Policing Unit assigned to operate from the station. Stepaside Garda Station was one of 139 stations closed between 2012 and 2013. Outgoing Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport Shane Ross had long made a talking point of the station's reopening, and the original closure of the station was met with great contention in the local area. The reopening of Stepaside Garda Station brings the number of operational Garda stations in the country to 567.