Redacted like a boss.
Grab yourself a large mug.
Read here
‘Searchable’ version here
(thanks Gavin Sheridan)
More as we read it.
#Guerin also recommends inquiry into Garda handling of sexual/porn allegations made by a named priest, and subsequent loss of a computer
— Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) May 9, 2014
Meanwhile….
Acting Garda Commissioner Noirin O’Sullivan (left) and Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald at the Department of Justice within the past hour.
(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)
[Derek Byrne (left) with Former Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan]
DL writes:
“Garda Assistant Commissioner Derek Byrne is among those shortlisted to become the next PSNI Chief Constable. Is this the same Derek Byrne who was allegedly involved in an alleged incident where Garda Maurice McCabe was assaulted after he refused to hand over two boxes of evidence of Garda malpractice?”
Top garda Derek Byrne in running to head the PSNI (Chris Kilpatrick, Belfast Telegraph)
Previously: The Thin Blue Timeline
(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)
Enda writes:
So the PSNI Fermanagh page stuck a clearly marked confidential garda
document on their Facebook page. Check it out!
(Chief Supt Harry Breen and Supt Bob Buchanan)
Yesterday three retired Garda Chief Superintendents publicly denied the conclusions of the Smithwick Tribunal that a member of the force in Dundalk Garda station colluded in the deaths of RUC oofficers Chief Supt Harry Breen and Supt Bob Buchanan in 1989..
Ed Moloney, author of The Secret History of the IRA in his blog today writes that the Provisional IRA did have a mole in Dundalk Garda station at the time of the RUC men’s killing.
I do not know what happened on the day that the two RUC men met their end but there are two things that I do know: one is that it was not necessary for the Gardai informant to tip off the IRA on the day of the killings for him to have colluded in the deaths.
The other thing I know is that the IRA did have an agent inside the Dundalk Garda station. The Smithwick Tribunal was established largely because of allegations from Toby Harnden in his book Bandit Country – The IRA and South Armagh that a Dundalk-based Garda helped the IRA kill the two RUC men.
I believed him not just because I know him to be a reputable and ethical journalist but also because I was told the same, that a well known Dundalk Garda was in the back pocket of the IRA in South Armagh. My source was a well-placed member of the IRA whose position in the organisation was such that he was in a position to know all about the Garda agent.
The details about the agent that I was given dovetail exactly with Harnden’s information. The protestations to the contrary from the retired Garda officers are understandable but they do not add up.
The IRA Did Have An Agent In The Dundalk Gardai (Ed Moloney, The Broken Elbow)
Previously: “Beyond Comprehension”
