Fennelly Report reveals improper conduct and ignorance

AT A macro level, it was ignorance, not a deliberate abuse of power. At a micro level, and in one microcosm in particular — Bandon Garda Station — things were a lot murkier, with talk (though no proof) of evidence tampering and improper conduct among certain gardaí.

Fennelly 2 will take days, even weeks, to properly analyse and digest.

Back in September 2015, Taoiseach Enda Kenny got a justified hammering in the way Fennelly 1 (running at 288 pages) was published, just as the Six One News started and minutes before his interview began.