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Following a general election in 1933 Éamon de Valera dismissed O ' Duffy as Garda Commissioner.

In the Dáil de Valera explained the reason for his dismissal ," he was likely to be biased in his attitude because of past political affiliations ".

The true reason, however, appears to have been the new government's discovery that in 1932, O ' Duffy's was one of the voices urging W. T. Cosgrave to resort to a military coup rather than to turn over power to the incoming Fianna Fáil administration.

O ' Duffy refused the offer of another position of equivalent rank in the public service.