A strongly worded email from an inspector in Roads Policing has ended up in the press about scruffy looking beards not being tolerated. It read “the advised maximum amount of time for a member to grow a sufficiently thorough beard is two weeks. If after that , the face still resembles a badly watered lawn in a heatwave, then it is time to concede graciously and admit defeat.” Henry McKean has been speaking to bearded men and the gardai. Headlines like is it time for a ‘Garda bristleblower,’ ‘arrest the growth’ and ‘caught by the fuzz’ are in many papers. This story has gone international and is being picked up globally.