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An Garda Síochána had no common law authority to install and operate the systems, the report states.

By doing so it infringed the rights of personal privacy of those recorded and it follows that gardaí were not legally authoriesd to use the recorded information from non-emergency calls.

The Commission said there was no evidence of widespread abuse but said this could not be ruled out.

It also found gardaí had no intention, or did not deliberately, attempt to record calls between solicitors and clients.

Fennelly report highlights ‘total ignorance’ of recordings by senior gardaí (RTÉ)

Report of The Fennelly Commission

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Alan Shatter and Enda Kenny

Further to the Fennelly Report into the firing resignation of garda commissioner Martin Callinan.

…If you were Enda you’d have given yourself a big wink in the bathroom mirror. You were being sucked in to a political whirlpool and now you’re standing on the shore, home and dry.

You needed two bodies, [former Garda commissioner Martin] Callinan’s and that of his close ally [former Minister for Justice] Alan Shatter. The manoeuvre of blaming Callinan for the thing he didn’t do (the tapes) allows you to make it look like you’re making him accountable for the things he did (rage at the whistleblowers).

Callinan’s resignation makes Shatter’s inevitable. But you didn’t lay a finger on either of them. The handsome chap in the mirror deserves a “Fair play to you, boy!

But here’s the thing: this kind of stroke, this ingenious opportunism, is possible only in a system that is deeply, thoroughly and deliberately screwed-up. If the people whom we trust to run the country for us were doing basic things properly, it couldn’t happen….

Fintan O’Toole: Fennelly report exposes a system of ‘cockspiracy’ (Irish Times)

Previously: Fennelly Report: The Digested Read

(Laura Hutton/RollingNews)