diff --git a/templates/gitlab-ci-golang.yml b/templates/gitlab-ci-golang.yml
index 7f27199756df849d6cbb29d2219655aaf1fdc2cb..690e85d1222a164c41ae1be8efe50420d281cde2 100644
--- a/templates/gitlab-ci-golang.yml
+++ b/templates/gitlab-ci-golang.yml
@@ -404,7 +404,7 @@ stages:
     set -e
 
     # dump text report in the console
-    cat "$go_text_report"
+    cat "$go_text_report" || (echo "Display of go test report file failed; Display of last 100 lines." && tail -n100 "$go_text_report") 
 
     # compute and dump code coverage in the console
     output_coverage