Journalists fail to back up Taylor-McCabe lies claim

None of the journalists whom former Garda press officer Supt David Taylor says were told lies in an effort to discredit whistleblower Maurice McCabe have backed up those claims.

Supt Taylor has also agreed there are no phone records to support his claim that he was instructed by Garda management to orchestrate a media campaign to destroy Sgt McCabe.

Supt Taylor said he sent hundreds of text messages to then garda commissioner Martin Callinan to update him whenever Sgt McCabe was mentioned in the media but they would only show the intense interest the commissioner had in Sgt McCabe and would not contain any orders which were oral.