Confidential Recipient for Garda Complaints

Garda Recipient gone, the pressure now moves onto Minister Shatter…

Mick Fealty on February 20, 2014, 11:28 am

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Yesterday’s leaders questions was once of those explosive occasions when you don’t quite get the extent of it at the time its happening. It’s clear from today’s front pages that Micheál Martin’s virtual bomb yesterday was well placed. Deputy Micheál Martin: Last week I read elements of the transcript of a conversation between the Garda confidential recipient, Mr. Oliver Connolly, and a Garda whistleblower, Mr. Maurice McCabe, such as how, if the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Alan Shatter, …

“If Shatter thinks you are screwing him, you’re finished…”

Mick Fealty on February 13, 2014, 12:16 pm

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So as the Taoiseach apologises for going after the Garda Ombudsman Commission (if not for being more than a little sloppy with the actualite). John Mooney of the Irish edition of the Sunday Times on RTE’s Late Debate programme (transcript on broadsheet.ie) went on to suggest that the Garda Commissioner may not be in complete control of all his troops. The real puzzle here is not just why the Taoiseach was so quick to jump down the throat of the GSOC, but …