There are extraordinary/emergency provisions which, to date, have mostly been seen in relation to the threat of armed force/terrorism.

Garda whistleblower Maurice McCabe has settled his legal action against the State, the HSE and Tusla for an undisclosed sum.

Garda whistleblower Maurice McCabe has settled his legal action against the State and Tusla for an undisclosed sum.

Former Tánaiste Frances Fitzgerald made a “conscious decision” not to interfere in the legal strategy being put forward at the O’Higgins Commission after receiving an email about it, the Disclosures Tribunal has heard.

The lead counsel in the Garda legal strategy challenging the credibility and motivation of Sgt Maurice McCabe at the O’Higgins inquiry in 2015 said he had been “left in no doubt” that information given to his legal team by senior gardaí grounding that strategy was accurate, when a key part of it was “wrong”.

If the Disclosures Tribunal continues as it has begun the new year, it will be drama all the way, writes Michael Clifford.

A Catholic priest shot and killed Patrick Pearse and two other Irish republicans in west Cork during the Civil War, leading anti-Treaty IRA members later claimed, writes Niall Murray.

Ryle Dwyer recalls the assassination of Kevin O’Higgins and how, many years later, his family decided to have Mass said for his three killers

Nóirín O’Sullivan’s remarks on the gardaí are at odds with many other accounts, writes Michael Clifford.

Des O’Sullivan on an important and historic sale of primary sources for the Irish revolutionary period. 

The tribunal of inquiry into the alleged smear campaign against Maurice McCabe will also include the treatment of other whistleblowers.

We may soon find out the truth of how the force deals with whistleblowers, writes Michael Clifford

THE story of the Hales brothers involved two cataclysmic events that had profound impacts on the Civil War in 1922. 

The ball is squarely back in Nóirín O’Sullivan’s court — Tánaiste and Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald firmly knocked it there yesterday.

If you're wondering how we got to where we are now, Michael Clifford breaksdown the main points from the continuing controversy surrounding the Garda Commissioner, whistleblower Maurice McCabe and the O’Higgins report

There is an “immediate crisis of trust and confidence” in the Garda Commissioner, Nóirín O’Sullivan, who has been called to resign her position by Opposition TDs.

Families of homicide victims have demanded “accountability” following the publication of the O’Higgins report and, furthermore, heavily criticised the media’s concentration on the political fallout.

Gardaí are piloting regional computer specialist units in Cork and Wexford in a bid to cut lengthy waiting times for the examination of computers linked to crime, including child abuse.

The O’Higgins report into complaints by whistleblower Sergeant Maurice McCabe has said any disciplinary proceedings against gardaí implicated “would not be helpful”.

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

Former justice minister Alan Shatter said he intends to contact Taoiseach Enda Kenny when the O’Higgins inquiry into allegations of Garda malpractice is published.

While progress was seen to be made in some areas of policing at Monday’s meeting of the Garda Authority, the O’Higgins commission’s efforts to access Garda documents exposed the old culture of secrecy, writes Special Correspondent Michael Clifford

Barrister Seán Guerin was paid almlost €160,000 for his role and for related services in examining allegations of Garda malpractice.

Garda whistleblower Maurice McCabe had reason to believe he was being “set up” by members of An Garda Síochána , the O’Higgins report into allegations of garda malpractice has ruled.

On the 125th anniversary of Michael Collins’s birth, Ryle Dwyer examines how attitudes to him have fluctuated through the decades, including a period when he was almost forgotten

The Irish Examiner and Evening Echo have swept the boards at the Law Society of Ireland’s Justice Media Awards.

Michael Clifford examines some of the issues surrounding the O’Higgins Inquiry into claims of garda malpractice as its cental figure, the whistleblower Sgt Maurice McCabe, undertakes a judicial review to reduce the financial burden on him.

The troubled task of getting citizens to turn up for jury duty has perplexed lawmakers since the early days of the nation, writes Caroline O’Doherty

Mick O’Dea’s new exhibition at Triskel is a preamble to his major show of the 1916-23 period, writes Richard Fitzpatrick

There has been a late surge in the number of complaints about the conduct of garda investigations, which is being examined by an expert panel of barristers.

Garda whistleblower Sergeant Maurice McCabe says the establishment of the commission of investigation into matters raised in the Guerin report will give a "voice" to the victims of cases that he highlighted.

The director general of the Law Society Ken Murphy has defended the pay of more than €2,000 per week to the society’s elected president.

A schoolteacher in Loreto College, Foxrock, Co Dublin, has been directed by a judge to pay €50,000 damages to a Dunlaoghaire jeweller he made defamatory remarks about.

A set of buttons found in Michael Collins’s pocket the day he died at Béal na Bláth have sold at auction for more than €5,000.

Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers in Dublin has something for everyone next Tuesday — but particularly for the collector of historic items and documents.

A rogue’s gallery of 1940s Cork criminals and a lament for her revolutionary Irish lover by the wife of a British peer are among an eclectic gathering of memorabilia to be auctioned in Dublin this month.

An Irish priest who lived through a South American dictatorship has defended Pope Francis against claims he failed to stand up to abuses by the military regime in his native Argentina.

IN RECENT years there has been outrage following reports into clerical abuse, as well as the publication of the recent report into the behaviour at Magdalene Laundries.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny described the current economic conditions of the country as “what is in reality a temporary, hand-me-down, financial straitjacket”.

It had certainly been a long time coming.

The highest paid barrister with the tribunal into garda corruption has been nominated as a High Court judge.

WHILE attending university in Texas in 1964 I was about to play golf one day when somebody asked if he could join me. I was going to agree, until I saw the man was black.