The report into alleged bugging at the offices of the Garda Ombudsman has been delivered to the Taoiseach's office, it has been confirmed.

One of the candidates for the Labour leadership is refusing to state publicly if he believes the Garda Commissioner was fired.

Middle-ranking gardaí have accused the ombudsman of going outside the law by using an independent firm to investigate suspected bugging at its offices.

Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore has refused to be drawn on whether a wider inquiry will be launched in the continuing Garda controversies.

The Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin has revealed he has been contacted by another Garda whistleblower.

It is reported today that a high-profile Garda whistleblower first raised concerns about alleged behaviour in the force in 2008.

The Taoiseach is due to be presented with a dossier containing 200 new claims of Garda misconduct.

Frank McBrearty Junior is calling for the positions of Garda Commissioner, Minister for Justice and Garda Ombudsman to be "completely independent".

The Justice Minister has today rejected claims that he is too close to the Garda Commissioner, saying that he only wants to get to the truth.

A Garda whistleblower has described the sacking of the force’s confidential recipient as "disturbing".

The confidential recipient in the Garda who hears complaints of malpractice from serving officers has been sacked.

The Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin says the Justice Minister Alan Shatter has tried to "undermine" GSOC from the outset of the bugging controversy.

The Justice Minister Alan Shatter is due to appear before the Oireachtas Oversight committee today to take questions about his handling of the GSOC bugging allegations.

The Minister for Justice Alan Shatter has said he received a report stating there is "no evidence at all" of bugging at the offices of the Garda Ombudsman Commission.

The British security company which investigated alleged bugging at the offices of the Garda Ombudsman has dismissed as "wholly inaccurate" a claim that the wifi network in a coffee shop was the innocent explanation for reports the office was bugged.

Fianna Fáil justice spokesman Niall Collins has accused Alan Shatter of misleading the Dáil in relation to bugging claims at the offices of the Garda Ombudsman Commission.

Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan has said he is "completely satisfied that there was no unauthorised access to (the force's surveillance) equipment".

The Minister for Social Protection has said it would be a waste of money to hold a public inquiry into claims that the office of the Garda Ombudsman was bugged.

It is reported that the Garda Ombudsman Commission carried out a security sweep of its offices after a senior garda appeared to have information about a case being investigated by them.

CONFUSION and spin. That’s what we have now. Confusion over whether the Garda ombudsman was bugged or not. And spin. Spin against the ombudsman on one hand and spin against the gardaí and Justice Minister Alan Shatter on the other.

Justice Minister Alan Shatter has again refused to pledge individual support for the chairman of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, Simon O’Brien.

There’s plenty more fuel in the GSOC crisis tank yet, writes Cormac O’Keeffe

Three omissions from the minister’s Dáil speech raise serious questions, writes Deputy Political Editor Mary Regan

Callinan’s assurances fail to convince

Garda watchdog feared telling Justice Minister about possible ‘wiretap’ in its office, while Taoiseach garbled relevant legislation

I’LL tell you something, Maurice — and this is just personal advice to you — if Shatter thinks you’re screwing him, you’re finished.” So went a line read into the record of the Dáil last Wednesday by Fianna Fáil leader, Micheál Martin.

Justice Minister Alan Shatter’s account of a suspected surveillance operation at the Garda Ombudsman’s offices differs considerably from a report he was given on the security concerns, it has been claimed.

Justice Minister Alan Shatter has said that he has full confidence in the members of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission.

Justice Minister Alan Shatter has again ruled out the prospect of an independent inquiry into allegations of bugging at the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commision (GSOC).

Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore has insisted that NO state bodies were authorised to carry out surveillance on the Garda Ombudsman headquarters.

Simon O’Brien, the head of the Garda Siochana Ombudsman Commission (Gsoc), suspects its headquarters have been placed under surveillance and he is looking internally for the spy.

The chairman of the Garda Ombudsman Commission says he believes the organisation's headquarters was under "some kind of surveillance".

The Taoiseach has said it is crucial that there is a "balanced relationship" between the Gardaí and the Garda Ombudsman Commission.

The Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (GSOC) is to be grilled today over claims that its headquarters in Dublin was bugged.

Justice Minister Alan Shatter’s statement yesterday pointed to three areas within GSOC that had been identified as potential weak points or “vulnerabilities” in their electronic security architecture.

The Garda ombudsman chairman has been called on to resign as two Garda staff associations turned on the police watchdog.

The Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission will come under intense pressure today to explain who leaked the alleged bugging allegations to the media.

Justice Minister Alan Shatter said the offices of the Garda ombudsman were checked for potential vulnerabilities but that there was no evidence of surveillance and they were not bugged.

Who’s bugging whom?

A private investigator says he has found bugging devices in most of the meeting rooms he has been asked to sweep through.

The Garda Ombudsman has said there was no evidence to suggest its headquarters were bugged but that it cannot definitively be ruled out.

Justice Minister Alan Shatter said it was “outrageous” to suggest that he “threatened anybody or authorised to threaten anybody” over attempts to blow the whistle within An Garda Síochána.

That Minister for Justice Alan Shatter was able to tell the Dáil last evening that the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission had informed him there was no evidence that its offices had been under technical or electronic surveillance is a very welcome development.

The difference between last week’s big story — Pantigate — and this week’s — the alleged bugging of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission’s (GSOC) office — is about 100 yards.