Garda whistleblower, Former Sgt Maurice McCabe and wife Lorraine McCabe at Dublin Castle last summer during the Disclosures Tribunal.
This afternoon.
Whistleblower Maurice McCabe, who left An Garda Síochána last year, has reportedly agreed a settlement for an undisclosed sum in his legal action against the force and Tusla.
Michael Clifford, of the Irish Examiner, reports:
The settlement came after weeks of negotiations between the legal teams for Mr McCabe and the Sate agencies over the 11 separate actions brought by the former garda sergeant and his family.
The actions were based on how Mr McCabe was dealt with in the aftermath of making complaints of malpractice in the force in 2008.
Previously: Maurice McCabe on Broadsheet
Disclosures Tribunal on Broadsheet
he deserves well into the 7 figures – hope he got it
Well done Mr & Mrs Mc Cabe….enjoy every cent of it!
Making who pay though? Callinan, O’Suillivan and Fitzgerald and successive justice ministers and everyone else who was culpable won’t pay anything.
Those in TUSLA who lost files or ‘misplaced’ them or wrongly inserted files, won’t pay. Journalists who aided and participated in this smear won’t pay.
Maurice McCabe and his family deserve to be compensated, I just wish it hurt those who were responsible for the pain inflicted.
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Dublin electors can tell Frances how they feel on May 24.
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D’ya know
I’d be confident in assuming Sgt McCabe (Retired) and Family would wish that would be the case too
..hurt those who were responsible for the pain inflicted.
But we are where we are
There was never any doubt this was going to be settled
Between 10 and 15 bar
Plus all his legal costs
Is my punt at it
And it should be charged against the AGS allocation from the Dept of Justice budget
While we’re all here
Lemme say this
Shame on us all that Joanne Hayes’ is still outstanding
Upwards of 20 mill is where that’s gonta land
And not a cent begrudged
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Sadly, we’ll never learn how much we are all paying for their malfeasance.
Well said Andrew.
thoroughly hope he got a number of millions in that settlement. I’m surprised the dirty b******ds didn’t chase him through every court in the land with a bevvy of high paid solicitors. tainted force the cops are. tainted force. as for Tusla getting involved, incredulous, a child protection agency abbetting in framing an innocent man as a pedo. They should round up and arrest anyone who lied about him in the whole case from the start.
Fair play to them, hopefully they can move on with their lives now.
May he be rich beyond his wildest dreams and may he and his wife live long and well on it.
May he never need to work another day as long as he lives.
hope its millions
Making who pay though? Sate employees responsible for this won’t pay. No jobs will be lost, no pensions. No charges. Journalists who aided and participated in this smear won’t pay.
I’m glad sergeant McCabe will be compensated as he deserves to be, but make no mistake nobody responsible for this will have to pay anything.
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Sad but truw
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Great for Maurice McCabe & family.
But if there was real justice there should be some penalty for the people that orchestrated this affair.
Maybe sooner or later we’ll cop on that we always end up paying for these mistakes and injustices because we elected the people who were and are in charge.
Unfortunately not a hope.
Depressing, isn’t it?
And people talk about respect and decency and honesty when the reality is that some of the biggest criminals in this country are employed by, aided and abetted by the state.
I’m not a SF voter but I truly understand the fear they put into FF, FG and AGS – imagine an ‘outside’ party gaining power? What might they uncover, if they didn’t just subsume and take the ‘soup’, so to speak?
Anyway, best of luck in your future endeavours Sgt. McCabe, you gave this person hope that this country isn’t entirely devoid of heroes.
If SF ever get power you’ll see large shredding vans outside some government departments before they assume it
What? why?
How would SF in power make any difference to any particular civil servant?
Do you think there is a big cupboard in each department with ‘sensitive’ documents in it – titled shred in case SF get into power?
Yeah Cian, because no bank criminal case files were ever shredded and no ex Garda Commissioner ever shredded anything, no banks ever shredded anything, is there even a shredder in the civil service?
My bad, I take it all back, I imagined it all.
*filthy chuckle*
We’re such a corrupt little hole.
Neither bankers nor the guards are civil servants.
These aren’t within government departments.
Hope they took ’em all to the fuppin cleaners. Every penny deserved, the pair of them.
I wish Mr. McCabe and his wife Lorraine many happy years of retirement.
I hope the McCabes can now enjoy some peace following a lengthy viscious campaign that was designed to break Maurice literally – for what – doing his job and exposing the rot. Had he not recorded the conversation pivotal to it there would never be truth and justice would be hanging in the balance.
Regardless of what the settlement is – it will never be enough. I hope Maurice and wife Lorraine can now enjoy quality time with their loved ones secure in the knowledge that the have nothing to fear. Be kind to yourselves and enjoy life Maurice and Lorraine
Hope he gets €25m
What Andrew said.
It’s not sufficient that McCabe be compensated, until Callinan is pinned to the wall along with the rest of them it’s not over
What about the Lady that exposed the rotten rump and lost her job and now
see what’s left of INM gobbed up by the Germans for song, all on the same
day
i think Maurice McCabe
Should sit up until the next presidential election
And then run for president
He will get my vote
It is the long game we should think of
(Besides he deserves the big house with all them serving him)