Minister’s healthy lack of curiosity

She is either the least curious justice minister in the history of the post or else she is smart enough to know when not to ask a question if you don’t want to know the answer.

Either way, Frances Fitzgerald’s claim that she cannot remember if she read an email sent to the Department of Justice in 2015 raising concerns about the garda tactics during the questioning of Sgt Maurice McCabe at the O’Higgins Tribunal is simply not credible.

Forget whether she was aware or not in advance of the Garda legal team’s intention to go after Sgt McCabe, it is beyond belief that she would not read an email regarding legal concerns being raised by Sgt McCabe’s legal team.