Fennelly Report: Inquiries are no longer about truth and change

After many inquiries but it is now clear they are for political expediency, not the greater good, says Michael Clifford.

FOR once, it really is a case of “nothing to see here, folks, now move along”.

Unlike most recent reports into the gardaí, the report of the Fennelly Commissioner of Investigation, contained no incendiary information. The controversies that have beset the gardaí in recent years have had a common feature of initial attempts at a cover-up of one form or another. There was none of that here.