Garda Commissioner defends appointing her husband to investigate media leaks

My name is URL

http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/garda-commissioner-defends-husbands-appointment-to-investigation-687916.html

The Garda Commissioner Noirin O'Sullivan is defending the appointment of her husband to a team investigating alleged leaks of information to journalists.

lmao

https://i.imgur.com/fojbGiM.jpg

The caption from that picture is as follows

Paul Williams with Garda Commissioner Noirin O'Sullivan at the launch of his new book

http://www.independent.ie/photos/launch-of-paul-williams-book-murder-inc-the-rise-of-irelands-most-dangerous-criminal-gangs-30740765.html

dirtyden

Commissioner appoints experienced investigator to lead investigation. Why is this news?

One More Toy

dirtyden wrote: »

Commissioner appoints experienced investigator to lead investigation. Why is this news?

Dirtyden appoints experienced investigator into dirty bugger investigation. Its also his wife

dirtyden

One More Toy wrote: »

Dirtyden appoints experienced investigator into dirty bugger investigation. Its also his wife

Do you have a point?

One More Toy

dirtyden wrote: »

Do you have a point?

If you cant see the OP's point then you will hardly see mine.

If there was a story about the commissioner appointing her husband to a handy do-nothing desk job somewhere it might be news.

As it is, he's a detective superintendent, investigating something.
Surely that's a good thing??

Sir Osis of Liver.

Avada

Typical Garda bashing thread. He was at his current rank investigating crimes before she was made commisioner. He's investigating another crime now. Nothing story.

Mr. Incognito

Head guard appoints detective to detect.

Scandal level. Beige.

PirateShampoo

If you're searching the lines for a point then you've probably missed it, there was never one there in the first place.

My name is URL

Avada wrote: »

Typical Garda bashing thread. He was at his current rank investigating crimes before she was made commisioner. He's investigating another crime now. Nothing story.

Not sure how it's 'typical' exactly

She has appointed her husband to investigate a matter in which she or her colleagues could be or are implicated

Brush it aside and say 'it's grand' all you want, but it isn't. And anyone with two brain cells to rub together can see that

Yellowblackbird

My name is URL wrote: »

Not sure how it's 'typical' exactly

She has appointed her husband to investigate a matter in which she or her colleagues could be or are implicated

Brush it aside and say 'it's grand' all you want, but it isn't. And anyone with two brain cells to rub together can see that

You actually touch on an important point.
It should be an external investigation. GSOC or some other outside people.

Mr. Incognito

My name is URL wrote: »

Not sure how it's 'typical' exactly

She has appointed her husband to investigate a matter in which she or her colleagues could be or are implicated

Brush it aside and say 'it's grand' all you want, but it isn't. And anyone with two brain cells to rub together can see that

Its an investigation into guards leaking info to journos to embarras the guarda brass of which she is a member. The head of the guards is entitled to appoint someone she can trust.

The greasy journos bribing the guards fearful of the info being cut are spinning this.

You read greasy journo spin and repost it here without even basic objective thought of the factual situation.

And in case anyone thinks i am sympathetic to the curropt coppers taking said greasy backhanders i am not.

NachoBusiness

That's about as suspicious as a mansion in Ashbourne which was owned by a well known criminal, ending up a year later being owned by the Garda Commissioner that was leading an investigation into him.

KomradeBishop

Wonder what nickname Paul Williams will give himself in his next book.

Yellowblackbird

Mr. Incognito wrote: »

Its an investigation into guards leaking info to journos to embarras the guarda brass of which she is a member. T

Her husband can hardly be impartial and detached - him being the 'brass'.

Avada

My name is URL wrote: »

Not sure how it's 'typical' exactly

She has appointed her husband to investigate a matter in which she or her colleagues could be or are implicated

Brush it aside and say 'it's grand' all you want, but it isn't. And anyone with two brain cells to rub together can see that

It's an internal investigation. Internal investigations need to be investigated by a senior Garda. Her husband happens to be the senior Garda investigating it. There is nothing stopping GSOC from opening a seperate external investigation if they wish. Does that clear my point up for you?

Jotunheim

Avada wrote: »

It's an internal investigation. Internal investigations need to be investigated by a senior Garda.

And do they have to be conducted by the spouse of one of the potential suspects? And are there no other investigations he could be doing? And is he the only investigator who could do this?

Avada

Jotunheim wrote: »

And do they have to be conducted by the spouse of one of the potential suspects? And are there no other investigations he could be doing? And is he the only investigator who could do this?

Who said she is the subject of the investigation? Precisely nobody.

Jotunheim

Avada wrote: »

Who said she is the subject of the investigation? Precisely nobody.

She's a Garda member and the one with the most information available to her, by definition she is a suspect. You didn't answer the other questions.

NachoBusiness

I don't mind people adapting true stories and fictionalizing them somewhat to make a film, but Paul Williams is not a screenwriter, he is a "journalist". It makes me fit to puke to think of how he makes his money and how the Gardai help him do it. I know his book contain lies but even if I didn't, anyone that has read his trash would logically know it immediately anyway, because at the end of many of his HIGHLY descriptive chapters, with such specific details as how people were breathing, and how they moved while carrying out murders, he will have text that will suggest that he also heard a different version of another person being responsible and that that was also a possibility.

So after describing murders in forensic detail, he suggests not only may they not have happened that way, but that they people that he has just said were there either murder someone or witnessing it, and being accomplices to it, may not have even been there at all.

I begrudge him every penny he has ever made. It's nauseating.

Avada

Jotunheim wrote: »

She's a Garda member and the one with the most information available to her, by definition she is a suspect. You didn't answer the other questions.

I don't work in AGS, so I can't answer the other questions. If she was being investigated, I would imagine it would have to be a GSOC investigation.

Jotunheim

Avada wrote: »

I don't work in AGS, so I can't answer the other questions.

You were full of strong opinions and supposed knowledge about what should and shouldn't happen until you were asked questions that don't suit your point.

Avada

Jotunheim wrote: »

You were full of strong opinions and supposed knowledge about what should and shouldn't happen until you were asked questions that don't suit your point.

:rolleyes:

Seriously? I voiced my opinions with the knowledge I do have, and rather than making up an answer to questions I didn't, I didn't answer them. I, nor most of the general public have access to Garda manpower, so I can't comment on whether there were other, suitably qualified Senior Gardaí were available to investigate the alleged leaks.

The investigation seems to focus on one particular previous investigation, and members who had access to information which was leaked. At no point has it ever been even mentioned that the commissioner was to be investigated. So how can her husband be discriminated against, and told that he can't be lead investigator, just because he is married to her?

Have a look at my posts below, they were the ones I did know the answer to, so I answered them, or voiced my thoughts/opinion.

Avada wrote: »

Typical Garda bashing thread. He was at his current rank investigating crimes before she was made commisioner. He's investigating another crime now. Nothing story.

Avada wrote: »

It's an internal investigation. Internal investigations need to be investigated by a senior Garda. Her husband happens to be the senior Garda investigating it. There is nothing stopping GSOC from opening a seperate external investigation if they wish. Does that clear my point up for you?

Avada wrote: »

Who said she is the subject of the investigation? Precisely nobody.

Avada wrote: »

I don't work in AGS, so I can't answer the other questions. If she was being investigated, I would imagine it would have to be a GSOC investigation.

mikom

Folk investigating their own folk.
What are ye all worried about?
Shur it worked fine with the catholic church and all their abuses..........