Why Garda incompetence is acceptable?

Specialun wrote: »

What are the chances that aclerical error just managed to happen to mccabe..

jimmycrackcorm wrote: »

Zapone is definitely under the microscope though. No surprise being an amateur politician.

My name is URL wrote: »

I think Zappone should go too, but if the buck stops with her on this issue it'll be disappointing.

She looks set to be thrown under the bus anyway to protect Fitzgerald

Potential-Monke wrote: »

And likewise, there is nothing in that article that shows any attempt by Gardaí to frame or anything like it Mr. McCabe. The article barely mentions the Gardaí and if they're guilty of anything, it's not investigating it sooner. I'd imagine they're crossing every T and dotting every i since he became a whistleblower, because he would know to look for and jump at the smallest of things. You can say it smacks of this and that, but there is no evidence whatsoever of your allegations, and while i'm not blind enough to think that stuff doesn't happen, i'm also not willing to accept anything without evidence. You're saying there's several involved, but there would be several involved in nearly any investigation, and especially one of such magnitude would have extra members involved. Then, as i said, include the alleged suspect (wrongly in this case, error by Tulsa) and you have to be even more careful of the investigation, so it would take longer than normal.

I think without anything else to prove it, jumping to the conclusion that this was an internal attack on a man who has been proven to be a liar (and also proven to be in the right, i'm not taking sides) is unsubstantiated. You can say you believe what you want, but without proof it's just words.

Two senior gardaí have made statements under whistleblower legislation alleging that senior garda management conducted a major campaign to “destroy” a whistleblower within the force, writes Michael Clifford in the Irish Examiner.

The “protected disclosures” of the two officers reference a campaign that included spreading false, scandalous, and damaging allegations against the whistleblower in question.
The purpose of the campaign was to completely discredit the whistleblower to the extent of destroying his character.

One of the two officers making the disclosure is admitting his role in the campaign to discredit the whistleblower, but claims he was following orders.
The disclosures were made to the Department of Justice within the last week and will raise fresh questions about the treatment of whistleblowers within the force.

• The disclosures detail a number of different strands to the campaign, which was conducted over a number of years.
  These include:
  * Generating hundreds of text messages which were disseminated among a large group of officers with the instructions to attack the whistleblower’s character;
  * The creation of an intelligence file on the whistleblower;
  * The deployment of an officer to monitor the activity of the whistleblower on Pulse, the Garda computer system;
  * The briefing of elements of the media about the whistleblower, laying emphasis on entirely false allegations about the whistleblower’s character;
  * The briefing of selected politicians in a similar vein.
  * The disclosures are understood to name individual officers as being central to the campaign, but a wide circle is understood to have been involved.

steddyeddy wrote: »

I don't think it's a hugely corrupt orginisation but there's some very shocking instances that have gone unpunished. Before anyone says anything, getting suspended with full pension isn't punishment.