Charleton Tribunal: Public interest not served if Commissioner stood down in 2016 - civil servant

Latest: A senior civil servant had told the Charleton tribunal that it would not have been in the public interest if former garda commissioner Nórín O'Sullivan stepped down from her post following the publication of the O'Higgins report in 2016, writes Gerard Cunningham.

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Update 3.30pm: A senior civil servant had told the Charleton tribunal that it would not have been in the public interest if former garda commissioner Nórín O'Sullivan stepped down from her post following the publication of the O'Higgins report in 2016, writes Gerard Cunningham.

The Charleton tribunal is examining whether unjustified grounds were inappropriately relied upon by the former garda commissioner to discredit whistleblower Sgt Maurice McCabe at the O'Higgins Commission of Investigation.