LET’S get Alan Shatter back his job. Let’s start a campaign here for a man who has been grievously wronged. Isn’t that the implication of the Cooke report into alleged bugging of the Garda Ombudsman’s office? Shatter was right all along. There was bugger-all bugging going on.

Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald says she still has confidence in the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (GSOC) despite a report questioning its response to alleged surveillance of its office.

Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald said that she has confidence in the Garda Ombudsman after a report criticised it for initiating its own inquiry into suspicions its offices may have been bugged.