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Whistleblower: Maurice McCabe

Sycamore Tree

RTE are doing a two part documentary on Sgt Maurice McCabe. I think it should be a must watch for people. This honourable man was nearly destroyed by a corrupt Garda management for trying to do the right thing.

His courage and bravery should be rewarded by the state but I think any future whistleblowers will think twice before trying to highlight bad practice in the Gardaí.

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WoollyRedHat

By the way, to people defending NOS earlier in this thread, the Tribunal made clear deliberations that testimony given by her claiming to be completely in the dark to the campaign orchestrated by Callinan was simply not credible. That is pretty damming, some Irish love to defend the indefensible. A good woman wronged ffs....

SEPT 23 1989

davidmarsh wrote: »

Surely Tusla need to be properly investigated.

Who had access to the files? Were they contacted by Callinan or his gang? How many other files have been tampered with? Why did it take them so long to follow up if it was a genuine error*?

*Not a single person believes it was an error.

What did the former commissioner have on a high ranking employee of Tulsa?

That's a more appalling vista

doolox

As mentioned before in this thread, Irish people can no longer blame the Brits, the Church or other foreign or too big organisation for our ills. We have home grown rats of our own. We also have home grown people of integrity and this gives me future hope, no matter how tenuous that hope may be.

We as a nation need to stop taking the words of "pillars of society" and need to inculcate in our children a certain level of cynicism and critical thinking so as to avoid slavish belief and devotion to flawed organisations and beliefs.

Lets hope that the state reduces Callinans pension and Taylors pension by an appropriate amount to cover the costs of legal action taken against them by the whistle-blowers whose careers have been damaged by this affair. It appears most likely that the taxpayer will bear the cost of this fiasco in full.

yew_tree

tayto lover wrote: »

I genuinely don't think it's as bad as it looks. I'm thinking of the two garda from my area who were murdered doing their jobs in the last few years. I hope McCabe is well compensated for all that he suffered.

Remember the Donegal fiasco? I believe the majority are good and hard working but if those good officers notice corruption now will they speak up? Would you blame them if they didn’t?

The state will come down on you like a ton of bricks. The public confidence in the force is at an all time low.

crusier

Commissioner Harris needs a serious clear out of Senior Garda Management. If he doesn't do it soon they will manufacture his exit in time and we'll be back to square one. Pay them off to fcuk if needs be it will be worth it. They were all appointed by various cabinets and few are there on merit. They are out of their depth and are in the way of change. I'm a Garda and am scared at what could be done to my family and I if you fall foul of them and they need to bury you. It's a sad day for the force because noone will come forward after Maurice McCabe imo.

big mce

jammiedodgers wrote: »

I had been following most of this story over the last few years but when you sit down and watch the whole lot together... What an absolute ****show. Callinan is a **** of the highest order and no doubt O Sullivan is just as dirty. Dave Taylor, another absolute stain.
Fair play to that TD that stuck by McCabe, John McGuinness I think his name was. No doubt at the time was really sticking his neck out for him.
As for McCabe.. An absolute hero and role model for all our public servants in this country.

I imagine John McGuinness slept very little the night after the meeting with Callinan in the hotel car park. What a decision to have to make.

brooke 2

doylefe wrote: »

I want that dog

I love how he loves that little dog!!

An Ri rua

Wheety wrote: »

Thought they should have mentioned Clare Daly being pulled over and arrested, twice, Ming being followed and Enda Kenny saying it was "probably because he looked like drug dealer" and Alan Shatter using Mick Wallace's private details live on RTE, after they raised the penalty points in the Dail. Just shows they tried to go after anyone who stood up to them.

So well summarised. And yet the view they're pedalling now is that Shatter is in the clear. As is Noreen O'Sullivan. Yeah right. Even Charleton, in allowing for the unlikely Tusla errors, is as guilty as Callinan in oppressing McCabe and, by extension, the Irish people. The tribunal found enough to satisfy McCabe while ensuring that damage limitation was the priority, particularly regarding Tusla.
The dogs on the street know that what you say above is true.
If it we're not for troublesome mainstream TDs like John McGuinness and John Deasy, and obviously Clare Daly, Mick Wallace, Ming etc, we would have a very sorry state of affairs. If the majority of the Dail fell into a pool and never surfaced again, it would be no harm at all.

WoollyRedHat

cursai wrote: »

Hope he's not too traumatised to have appeared in party two of his show on the national broadcaster. I know he likes to keep his head down.

Thought you were fecking off ages ago? An amoeba would make better contributions than you've made, all noise, no substance.

[Deleted User]

Missed this tonight. Anywhere I can watch it? It's not on the player yet

[Deleted User]

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Any Gardai on this thread by any chance?

I would love to hear the honest opinions of rank and file guards on the whole thing.

Laois_Man

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Makes one wonder about the stuff we haven't heard of and indeed some of what we have - Sophie Toscan du Plantier, Father Niall Molloy, Kerry Babies, etc

I'm at least heartened that there is a proven separation of powers and influence when it comes to the likes of Sean Guerin SC and Supreme Court judge Peter Charleton and the reports they compiled. That's something to celebrate!

Yet unfortunately,. you have to go thru a hell of a lot of **** to get a case in front of someone like that!

davidmarsh

Surely Tusla need to be properly investigated.

Who had access to the files? Were they contacted by Callinan or his gang? How many other files have been tampered with? Why did it take them so long to follow up if it was a genuine error*?

*Not a single person believes it was an error.

jammiedodgers

I had been following most of this story over the last few years but when you sit down and watch the whole lot together... What an absolute ****show. Callinan is a **** of the highest order and no doubt O Sullivan is just as dirty. Dave Taylor, another absolute stain.
Fair play to that TD that stuck by McCabe, John McGuinness I think his name was. No doubt at the time was really sticking his neck out for him.
As for McCabe.. An absolute hero and role model for all our public servants in this country.

Harry Palmr

Any Gardai on this thread by any chance?

Zeek12

These two programmes were incredibly important.

It’s heartening to see Rte, on occasion, put their funds to proper use, instead of the usual garbage they piss our license fees away on.

Well done to Katie Hannon, and all the team involved in this production

melon_collie

Maurice is nothing short of a national hero.

I hope that Drew Harris will take this opportunity to root out the rotten core of AGS.

And finally, I hope that that scumbag Callanan is sued for every penny he has. What a disgrace of a human being.

phelant

yew_tree wrote: »

Well done Maurice McCabe...I’m angry as hell after watching that.

The big worry here is the culture in the Gardai most likely is the same and won’t change any time soon. I wish the new comminisor well but he has some job on his hands.

The culture in the Gardai is not the same. It will be worse now. They will have learned a lot from this exercise and will now become more devious, clever and sneaky at hiding future transgressions.
Sad to say it but Mc Cabe has not achieved as much as we may like to think. I say that as someone who has huge respect for what he did. But it it will take more than the will of one man to change what is going on in An Garda Siochana.

tayto lover

yew_tree wrote: »

Well done Maurice McCabe...I’m angry as hell after watching that.

The big worry here is the culture in the Gardai most likely is the same and won’t change any time soon. I wish the new comminisor well but he has some job on his hands.

I genuinely don't think it's as bad as it looks. I'm thinking of the two garda from my area who were murdered doing their jobs in the last few years. I hope McCabe is well compensated for all that he suffered.

Silentcorner

tayto lover wrote: »

We need our police force, army, judges and other high officials to be completely free from political interference. I don't believe they ever will be. Politicians have always made sure that their own men are in place. They need to control the above.

We will never see a new political entity.

FF, in 2011, introduced a bill banning corporate donations, in the guise that they were cleaning up politics.

It is now virtually impossible to launch a new nationwide political party, you won't get funding unless you are elected...that's the beauty of that legislation.

Patriots the lot of 'em!!!

Even the patriot Bertie Ahern is being normalised in our media and has been for years now!!!

Dickie9

Hopefully Martin callinan will rot in jail soon

Harry Palmr

Makes one wonder about the stuff we haven't heard of and indeed some of what we have - Sophie Toscan du Plantier, Father Niall Molloy, Kerry Babies, etc

yew_tree

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Well to be fair John McGuinness, Michael Martin, Leo Varadkar and Edna Kenny all supported Maurice McCabe and enabled the enquirers, tribunals and commissions on this.

The Garda senior management were completely corrupt and have to answer for this travesty of justice themselves. Shame on them all .

Giving Enda Kenny any ounce of credit seems to be a crime among the trolls.

Johnny Jukebox

Sardonicat wrote: »

Let me get this right; 110 pages of allegations against someone who wasn't G McC was copied and pasted accidentally into the old Ms D file which had been found to be unfounded? Is that what Tusla claimed?

Yeah, fcuking Microsoft Word on steroids...

NIMAN

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Noreen was standing side by side with the former commissioner for years

but she knew NOTHING

what type of thicks do they take us for?

off onto the world stage now with the Garda pension intact

Why do we put up with the sh1t?

Do they take oaths at the start of tribunals?

onthebrink

We need more like Maurice McCabe in the Gardai and in this country. He showed such courage, such backbone against the majority of his "colleagues". While the commissioner has been thrown out, are the incompetents from the station that Maurice originally made complaints about still in the force. It doesn't inspire confidence in the new commissioner if these are not thrown out as well.

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ChikiChiki wrote: »

Agree. Its my true belief that for Ireland to progress and prosper we need a strong leader to emerge and to see both Fianna Fail and Fine Gael banished from the corridors of power for good.

They are the cesspool beneath it all enabling such behaviour and allowing it to happen in state institutions.

Well to be fair John McGuinness, Michael Martin, Leo Varadkar and Edna Kenny all supported and believed Maurice McCabe and enabled the enquirers, tribunals and commissions on this.

The Garda senior management were completely corrupt and have to answer for this appalling web of deceit and lies. Shame on them all .

NIMAN

CH3OH wrote: »

I wish him a long and happy retirement.. If anyone deserves it .. he does.

I hope he takes the state to the cleaners. He deserves every penny that I'm sure he will get

Totally agree.
Hopefully the guilty will now find it hard to leave the house, but I doubt it.

Also think he deserves compensation, it's a pity that the taxpayers of the country have to pay for it.

professore

There have been marches for all sorts of ****ing stupid things in this country. There should be a march for a tusla investigation and the loss of pension entitlements for corrupt public officials.

leahyl

An amazing man, what an example to his children and to all of us. His wife has some strength also. I wish him the best in making up for lost time.

As for that bastard Callanan and all the other scumbags, I won’t even go there..