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"path": "/2026/06/01/news/gardai-inspect-shopping",
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"textContent": "It’s an image that feels almost surreal now; a Garda peering into a shopper’s bag on a near-deserted street, both men in face masks, the officer in rubber gloves. But six years ago, at the height of the first Covid-19 lockdown, photographs that appeared to show Gardaí inspecting people’s shopping sparked a national debate about […]",
"title": "Six years on: Why Gardaí ‘inspected’ people’s shopping during pandemic"
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