Thomas J. Flaherty , Garda Síochána

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, more commonly referred to as the Gardaí , is the police force of Ireland. The service is headed by the Commissioner who is appointed by the Irish Government. Its headquarters are located in the Phoenix Park in Dublin.- Terminology :...

 22405G and recipient of the Scott Medal

Scott Medal

The Walter Scott Medal is a medal awarded annually for bravery to Garda Síochána police officers and firemen. It is not a state award, being at the gift of the commissioner, but the medals are awarded by the Minister for Justice. FDNY recipients are also awarded $500, donated by the Fire Foundation...

, born 1963.

Background

A native of Indreabhán

Inverin

Indreabhán is a Gaeltacht village between Spiddal and Casla in County Galway, Ireland. Inverin is more strongly Irish-speaking than Spiddal, partly due to fewer commuters from Galway living there. There are a number of Irish-language summer colleges in the area, most notably Coláiste Lurgan and...

, Flaherty was awarded the Scott Medal for his actions during an incident on 31 March 1994.

Incident at Galway Docks

On mobile patrol at night, Madden was alerted that a woman had fallen into the city docks.

"When Flaherty arrived at the scene minutes later it was to see the distressed woman lose her grip on the lifebuoy she had been clutching and sink underwater. Pulling the clothing from his upper body Garda Flaherty dived off the dock - a height of fifteen feet - and plunted into thirty feet of freezing water. he quickly found the woman and raised her head above the surface. Wht the help of a lifebuoy thrown by his colleagues he swam with his charge a distance of some sixty yards until they reached the dock wall. Although dazed and barely conscious when lifted from the water, the woman later fully recovered from her experience."

Flaherty was awarded the Scott Bronze Medal on 15 February 1996 by Minister for Justice

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, Nora Owen

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See also

• Brian Connaughton
  Brian Connaughton
  Brian Connaughton, Garda Síochána and recipient of the Scott Medal, 8 October 1899-26 March 1983.-Background:Connaughton was a native of Ballinglas, Mountbellew, County Galway...
  
  
• Joseph Scott
  Joseph Scott (garda)
  Joseph Scott, Garda Síochána and recipient of the Scott Medal, 4 March 1901-20 August 1962.-Background:Scott was born at Leavhive, Creggs, County Galway, and was a farmer before joining An Garda Síochána 1 April 1922, making him one of the very first members of the force...
  
  
• Deaths of Garda officers (1980)
  Deaths of Garda officers (1980)
  Two officers of the Garda Síochána, the police force of the Ireland, were shot and killed on July 7 1980 by alleged members of the Irish National Liberation Army during a pursuit in the aftermath of a bank robbery. Occurring near Loughglynn, County Roscommon, the officers' deaths provoked a...
  
  
• Jerry McCabe
  Jerry McCabe
  Detective Garda Jerry McCabe was a member of the Garda Síochána, the police force of the Republic of Ireland. McCabe was murdered in Adare, County Limerick on 7 June 1996, by members of the paramilitary group, the Provisional IRA, during the attempted robbery of a post office van.-Early...
  
  
• Yvonne Burke (Garda)
  Yvonne Burke (Garda)
  Yvonne Burke, Garda Síochána and first female recipient of the Scott Medal, born 20 April 1970.-Incident at Cabra:Burke and her colleague, Garda Brady, were on mobile patrol on the Navan Road, Cabra, on 13 November 1993 when an alarm was raised at a local supermarket...
  
  

Reference

• An Garda Síochána and the Scott Medal, p.175, Gerard O'Brien, Four Courts Press
  Four Courts Press
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  , 2008. ISBN 978 1 84682 124 0