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Independent Dublin City Councillor Ciarán Perry has said that one of the side benefits of the EU summit being held in Dublin is the increased garda presence which has led some communities to feel safer, Vivienne Clarke reports.

“We held a meeting of the new local community policing partnership last night and a number of people attended from the north inner city and all commented how safe they felt being in the area with so many gardaí.

“Even the senior gardaí attending acknowledged that police visibility directly impacts on the type of antisocial and criminal we see daily in the city centre and also in communities.

“So people are seeing what can be done by garda management when required.”

Perry told Newstalk’s Claire Byrne show that increased policing levels encouraged people to come into the city centre and people to socialise in local communities.

Seeing more gardai on the streets “absolutely makes people feel safer, makes communities feel safer and absolutely discourages antisocial behaviour and drug dealing,” he added.

However, he acknowledged that it would not be possible to maintain the level of policing currently visible in the city centre all the time.

“I don’t think anybody expects us to have the level of policing that we currently see in city centre.”

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said Europe’s perspective needs to be heard in restarted negotiations to end the war in Ukraine, Jack Power reports.

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