Former Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan
The Irish Examiner reports:
“The report into the resignation of Martin Callinan as Garda Commissioner has been delayed indefinitely.”
“Former Supreme Court justice Nial Fennelly says he cannot proceed with his report because of the Ian Bailey case.”
“In a letter to the Taoiseach, Justice Fennelly says that case is “inextricably linked” to the secret Garda recordings which caused Mr Callinan to resign.”
Report into Garda Commissioner’s resignation postponed indefinitely (Irish Examiner)
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This was the front page story on the SBP yesterday. Really inconclusive article by Pat Leahy. Surprised it hasn’t made more waves.
Disband.
That must have been a tough letter for Judge Fennelly to write to Enda
“Dear Enda, although I concluded within two minutes of starting this investigation that you did in fact fire the former Garda Commissioner, which is of course unconstitutional, you will be pleased to hear that a peripheral matter that cropped up in my investigation – the role that unauthorised tape recordings in Garda stations played in the Commissioner’s ahem, resignation – is presently before the courts in the Ian Bailey case where it is alleged such recordings were abused by Gardai in west Cork. You will be delighted to hear, therefore, that I will be withholding my entire report until the Bailey case has been concluded, which, given the prospect of appeals, should be 2018 at the earliest, best wishes Nial”
P.S. Make sure you don’t just answer directly any questions regarding the firing of the Commissioner, since this will surely prejudice me and I, an experienced lawman, will become immediately biased for some reason. xxx
Bailey case will be over within next 3 weeks. Not a huge delay.
I have it from a well informed source that one of the big scandals that is lurking re the recorded calls in garda stations is that on-duty gardaí were passing away the lonely hours of night shifts calling premium rate sex lines, spending your hard earned tax payers money, eh, investigating, eh, things …
Word on garda street is if this story properly sees the light of day it’ll have garda wives the length and breadth of Ireland slapping their SOs senseless; will completely undermine the gardaí credibility to investigate vice; and it will generally turn the force into a farce if so much as handful of these logged calls were FOI’ed. I wasn’t told the magnitude of the problem but I was led to believe the phone bill involved ran to quite a tidy sum.
There are 2,500 tapes worth of recordings of incoming and, most importantly here, outgoing calls from garda stations.
Broadsheet: investigate.
Any sex line workers able to corroborate any of this?
Legal coffee drinker: am I safe from prosecution? I’m going under first principles of Irish defamation law here: you can say anything once it’s true, and I was told by a well informed source all of the above.
Yours sincerely,
Mrs Whistley-Blower
Xoxo
So fupping what if they did
Meow how is that even remotely a scandal?
You’re a gobspoo
Yes he can, the day after the Jury delivers its verdict.