Will Leo be the shortest serving taoiseach in history?

Wheeliebin30 wrote: »

Nothing to see here folks.

SF stand for justice for an garda.

Ah stop would ya:)

Nettle Soup wrote: »

You must be a FG supporter given you are insensitively trying to create a smokescreen using Jerry McCabe.

I actually think you will encourage people to vote SF with your "but look over there!" posts. It's quite a childish ploy.

Can I ask, what do you think of FG's handling of Sgt Maurice McCabe? Have you ever read his statement?

The Charleton tribunal is examining claims that allegations of sexual abuse were used as part of a campaign to smear and undermine the reputation of Sgt McCabe. The DPP decided against pressing charges in the case due to lack of evidence in 2007.

Tribunal barrister Pat Marrinan SC said there had been a “total failure” of systems in Tusla, and “every error that is made is to the detriment of Sgt McCabe. There isn’t an error in his favour”.

“There are those who may say that this litany of grave errors can’t just be coincidence after coincidence,” he said.

Transcripts of the O’Higgins Commission supplied to the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission for its investigation into the Mullingar meeting incident were missing crucial pages, RTÉ's Prime Time programme has revealed.

GSOC had to obtain a court order to get access to the transcripts from the Department of Justice because the transcripts are confidential under the provisions of the Commissions of Investigation Act.

GSOC obtained that court order in January and the transcripts were delivered on 20 February. However GSOC confirmed in a statement yesterday that the transcripts that were delivered were incomplete.
The GSOC inquiry centred on an incident that occurred in the opening days of the O’Higgins Commission.

Counsel for the Garda Commissioner told the inquiry that he had been instructed to challenge Maurice McCabe’s credibility and motivation.
He said that a senior garda would give evidence that Sgt McCabe had admitted at a meeting in Mullingar in 2008 that he only made his allegations of garda malpractice because he had a grievance against a senior officer.
However Sgt McCabe had a tape recording of that meeting that proved this was not the case.

Prime Time revealed that key pages in which Mr Justice O’Higgins confirmed to the inquiry that he had reviewed the tape of the Mullingar meeting and the remarks attributed to Sgt McCabe were not on it.

The hour that was missing was the hour in which the strategy outlined by the Garda Commissioner’s legal team collapsed.

That hour was also missing from the transcript supplied to the McCabe legal team during the Commission hearings.

There was no mention of this incident in the O’Higgins Commission report.
A spokesperson for the Department of Justice said tonight that "the particular pages identified by GSOC were not among the records of the Commission deposited with the Department in the first place".

The Department said there was "no question of transcripts being withheld from GSOC or of the necessity for an investigation. To the extent that some pages were not among the records deposited with the Department of Justice and Equality, the transcripts were not complete."

seamusk84 wrote: »

The last thing I (and I'm assuming most the country) wants is another election now.

Don't care about this Garda stuff, a lot of us will punish FF if they make us go to the poles this time of year.

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Mountain/molehill springs to mind here tbh, certainly until tribunal has issued

Shinners desperate to push this now but I don't see this as being a huge issue for most voters

Same tbh with 'homelessness' it's a bit media/political circle hype

FrancieBrady wrote: »

So no blow back for FG?
Remember the same BS talking up FG before Enda went to the country. He got a kicking.