Was justice served with the O'Higgins report?

The O’Higgins report says any disciplinary proceedings against gardaí, which might conceivably arise out of his investigation, ‘would not be helpful’, writes Cormac O’Keeffe

The way in which the O’Higgins report was released to the public again belies official claims of a new era of openness and transparency in justice and policing.

This reality is reflected in the opening pages of the O’Higgins report, eventually published at noon yesterday. Mr Justice Kevin O’Higgins says the compliance with the “obligation” to provide documentation by the gardaí was “unsatisfactory”.