There are very few living Irish people who have had the impact that Sgt Maurice McCabe has had.

The Government’s apology to Garda whistleblower Sergeant Maurice McCabe was a “blatant, brazen piece of hypocrisy” the Dáil has heard.

Garda commissioner Drew Harris has said the recommendations of Mr Justice Peter Charleton were a “clarion call” for action to reform the police force.

The Charleton report published last week found, among other things, former Garda press officer Supt David Taylor “swore an affidavit that was almost entirely made up of nothing but lies”.

The former justice minister had to resign for many reasons — just not because she failed to stop a challenge to Maurice McCabe’s motivation in 2015, writes Michael Clifford.

I can only imagine what a bittersweet weekend it must have been for Frances Fitzgerald and Nóirín O’Sullivan.

We look at what the Charleton Tribunal said about Maurice McCabe, Noirín O’Sullivan, David Taylor, Martin Callinan and Frances Fitzgerald.

Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan said he fully endorses Judge Peter Charleton’s description of Sgt Maurice McCabe in his third interim report.

Garda whistleblower Maurice McCabe has said he is "delighted" that the Charleton report has been published today, but admitted that some parts of it were "hard to take".

Charleton has vindicated and commended Maurice McCabe. The reputation of the force itself, however, is less assured, writes Special Correspondent Michael Clifford.

Mr Justice Peter Charleton said he remains “deeply concerned” that the gradual erosion of Garda discipline, as identified by the Morris Tribunal more than 12 years ago, could lead to disaster.

Frances Fitzgerald has said she is "pleased" by the findings of a Disclosures Tribunal report which found that her evidence was "an honest appraisal" of events leading to her resignation.

The Disclosures Tribunal has found two senior gardaí were involved in a smear campaign against the Garda whistleblower Maurice McCabe.

Sergeant Maurice McCabe had enjoyed a steady rise through the ranks of An Garda Siochana for twenty years before trouble found him.

Here, Michael Clifford explains what the Charleton Tribunal is all about.

At one stage during the 97 days of hearings at the Charleton Tribunal into “protected disclosures ... and certain other matters “ the presiding judge likened the process to “rolling a very large stone up a very large mountain like Croagh Patrick”.

Sergeant Maurice McCabe was entitled to be vindicated as truthful by the Charleton Tribunal, his barrister has said in closing submissions.

The Charleton Tribunal should disregard the evidence of four witnesses, including two TDs, in favour of the testimony of former commissioner Martin Callinan, a barrister for An Garda Síochána has said.

Former garda press officer Supt David Taylor's account of his dealings with journalists was "unworthy of trust", a barrister representing RTÉ has told the Charleton tribunal.

There is a weariness about everything around the Maurice McCabe story at this stage, but events coming to a conclusion in Dublin Castle are worthy of serious attention. Recent revelations have brought into sharp focus matters of great import to both policing and the media in this country.

The chairman of the Charleton tribunal has said he will not go to the High Court to require journalists to answer questions where they claimed journalistic privilege because it would be "absolutely futile".

Allegations against Garda whistleblower Sergeant Maurice McCabe were being "peddled" to newsrooms in Dublin, a national newspaper editor has told the Charleton tribunal.

Latest: Independent TD Mick Wallace has told the Disclosures Tribunal he can’t be 100% sure that Superintendent Dave Taylor told him he sent derogatory texts about Maurice McCabe, but that’s the impression he got.

The editor of the Irish Independent Fionnan Sheahan said he never told a former Sunday Independent editor that garda whistleblower Sgt Maurice McCabe was "a paedophile".

RTÉ crime correspondent Paul Reynolds has told the Charleton tribunal he was "shocked" to be named by former garda press officer Supt David Taylor as one of the journalists who was negatively briefed about whistleblower Sgt Maurice McCabe.

Paul Williams was surprised to hear his name brought up in a Dáil debate about the quashing of penalty points. This was in late 2013, the Disclosures Tribunal heard yesterday.

Journalist Paul Williams has said he was "surprised" to be named in the Dáil as someone who had penalty points quashed and "did not know it was coming".

Three Irish Examiner journalists have refused to tell the Disclosures Tribunal whether Supt David Taylor was a source of allegations against whistle-blower Maurice McCabe.

A senior Independent Newspapers editor has told the Charleton tribunal she advised against the publication of a draft article with the woman who alleged that her complaint against garda whistleblower Sgt Maurice McCabe was not properly investigated.

A journalist with the Irish Independent has told the Disclosures Tribunal she advised against the publication of a series of articles by her colleague Paul Williams.

Two more crime correspondents yesterday told the Disclosures Tribunal that they were never briefed negatively by any gardaí about Sergeant Maurice McCabe.

Irish Sun journalist Eavan Murray has told the Charleton tribunal she would not allow herself to be used in a smear campaign.

Latest: A journalist with the Irish Sun has told the Disclosures Tribunal that she believes Superintendent Dave Taylor named her as someone he briefed negatively to bolster his story.

A journalist has told the Charleton Tribunal she would not consider sources who provided factual statements about a Garda investigation into allegations against Sgt Maurice McCabe to be smearing the sergeant.

An awful lot of people have been telling lies under oath at the Disclosures Tribunal. That’s according to the chairman of the inquiry, Judge Peter Charleton.

A journalist has been told there is an obligation to tell the whole truth to the Charleton tribunal.

The Group editor of Associated Newspapers has told the Disclosures Tribunal that the media company believes a journalist with the papers has given untrue evidence, motivated by her grievance against the Mail on Sunday.

Can you know somebody actually but not officially?

Crime journalist Michael O'Toole told the Charleton tribunal that he was not the recipient of smears or negative briefings about garda whistleblower Sgt Maurice McCabe.

RTÉ journalist Philip Boucher-Hayes has said the Charleton Tribunal can contact three people he told of a conversation where former garda Commissioner Martin Callinan told him that Sgt Maurice McCabe had psychological issues and had done "the most horrific kind of things”.

Disclosures Tribunal chairman Mr Justice Peter Charleton has reiterated his call for anyone who had information relevant to the inquiry's terms of reference to come forward, noting that the process was coming to an end.

Labour leader Brendan Howlin has said he had a duty to put information he was given by a journalist on the public record in the Dáil in February 2017 in order to inform the debate on the terms of reference for the Charleton tribunal.

Former Garda commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan has told the Charleton Tribunal she “did not feel comfortable” in the presence of former garda press officer Superintendent David Taylor, and at “times he appeared to be a divisive individual”.

Former Sunday independent editor Ann Harris investigated an allegation of sexual abuse against garda whistleblower Sgt Maurice McCabe in 2013 and found that it was groundless, the Charleton Tribunal has heard.