Gardai say 16 new officers who graduated on Thursday are from outside of the Republic of Ireland.
New cops from New Zealand, Lithuania, Angola, Croatia, Poland, England, Northern Ireland, Guatemala, Saudi Arabia, Scotland were among 102 overall who were sworn into the force at its training college at a passing out ceremony in Templemore, Tipperary.
Figures show that 64 of them were men and 38 were women.
