Charleton Tribunal

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Michael McDowell, Maurice McCabe, Lorraine McCabe and Sean Costello at the Charleton tribunal in Dublin Castle. Photograph: Gareth Chaney Collins
Maurice McCabe: An honest perfectionist, ‘prone to exaggeration’

Garda whistleblower Sgt Maurice McCabe apologised this week at the Charleton Tribunal for an incorrect passage in his statement to the tribunal that t(...)

Sgt Maurice McCabe, after giving evidence at the Disclosures Tribunal at Dublin Castle, with his wife, Lorraine. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
Maurice McCabe says former Garda commissioner alleged he abused his own children

Sgt Maurice McCabe has told the Charleton tribunal he was informed that in 2016 the then Garda commissioner, Martin Callinan, alleged the whistleblow(...)

Former Garda commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan declined to accept suggestions that her legal team at the O’Higgins commission had misunderstood her instructions. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
O’Sullivan creates impression of detachment from strategy on McCabe

At the end of her second day in the witness box at the Charleton tribunal, the impression created by former Garda commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan remai(...)

Former tánaiste Frances Fitzgerald. File photograph: Eric Luke
Frances Fitzgerald ‘sent McCabe emails to the wrong address’

The Charleton tribunal has heard evidence of previously unknown contacts between former Garda commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan and then minister for jus(...)

Mr Justice Peter Charleton: said some journalists had given witness statements in which they specified conversations that had taken place outside of any journalistic privilege. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
Lifting of Garda privilege turns tribunal spotlight on journalists

The Charleton Tribunal has said Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan, her predecessor Martin Callinan and former head of the Garda press office Supt D(...)