An RTE broadcaster has told the Disclosures Tribunal Martin Callinan told him that Maurice McCabe had psychological and psychiatric issues.

As a member of An Garda Síochána, Maurice McCabe was entitled to know he was being accused of these offences, writes Michael Clifford

If the weight of evidence wasn’t stacked against Martin Callinan, he would make for a convincing witness, writes Michael Clifford.

Former garda commissioner Martin Callinan has told the Disclosures Tribunal that he was on his way to meet with a security source when he incurred penalty points for speeding.

Martin Callinan can’t understand why so many people are claiming that he had some terrible things to say about Sergeant Maurice McCabe.

Former garda commissioner Martin Callinan has told the Charleton Tribunal he did not order a report detailing complaints against whistleblower Sgt Maurice McCabe in 2013, and did not know how it was compiled.

Former Commissioner Martin Callinan had said that the outrageously serious allegations made against him by Fianna Fail TD John McGuinness are falsehoods.

No public inquiry reaching into the dark recesses of Irish life is complete without a shady figure stepping into the light to seek redemption. So it went in the Planning Tribunal. So it goes now with the Disclosures Tribunal.

Former Garda commissioner Martin Callinan has told the Disclosures Tribunal that his use of the word “disgusting” before a public accounts committee hearing was “isolated and misconstrued” in media reports.

Former Commissioner Martin Callinan has denied telling Philip Boucher-Hayes that Maurice McCabe had psychological and psychiatric issues and was motivated by a set of grievances against the Gardaí.

These are strange days indeed for An Garda Síochána, and things got a little stranger yesterday in Dublin Castle.

The former private secretary to the ex-Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan says he felt it was inappropriate for him to advise well-known solicitor Gerald Kean.

The former head of the Department of Justice denies it was inappropriate that the ex-Garda commissioner met a Dáil committee chairman to argue against a whistleblower giving evidence.

The State’s financial watchdog has said former Garda commissioner Martin Callinan made comments about Sergeant Maurice McCabe along the lines that he was “not to be trusted” and had questions to answer over alleged “sexual offences”.

Latest: The Garda head of communications has said he would have been “appalled” if told that the Garda Commissioner wanted to brief journalists about sex abuse allegations against whistleblower Sergeant Maurice McCabe.

The former chief executive of the Road Safety Authority (RSA) was told by the then Garda press officer, Superintendent David Taylor, that his phone could be monitored, the Charleton Tribunal has heard.

The Disclosures Tribunal was treated to a splash of celebrity yesterday, but the tidings brought further troubling detail of how An Garda Síochána operated at the highest level.

Former garda commissioner Martin Callinan briefed celebrity solicitor Gerald Kean for almost an hour before a radio appearance in which Mr Kean questioned and criticised whistleblower Sergeant Maurice McCabe.

Former PAC chairman John McGuinness has said he witnessed garda whistleblower Maurice McCabe getting "destroyed" year after and year and found it difficult to repeat allegations against him.

TD John McGuinness has claimed that the former garda commissioner told him in Leinster House that Sergeant Maurice McCabe “fiddled” with children and garda whistleblowers were “fucking headbangers”.

Fianna Fáil TD John McGuinness kept notes of a conversation with former Garda commissioner Martin Callinan in which he allegedly claimed a garda whistleblower had sexually abused his children and could not be trusted.

The former head of the Public Accounts Committee will give evidence today at the Disclosures Tribunal on the treatment of Garda whistleblowers.

Former Garda commissioners including Martin Callinan, Fachtna Murphy and Noel Conroy could be hauled before the cross-party Public Accounts Committee (PAC) over the deepening garda college financial scandal.

The Taoiseach has again rejected that he forced former Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan from his job.

Former Garda commissioner Martin Callinan held a series of meetings at Garda Headquarters over “several days last week” at the same time as two scandals in the force were emerging.

Former Garda commissioner Martin Callinan has rejected accounts of a meeting where it was claimed he told a Fianna Fáil TD that whistleblower Maurice McCabe was not to be trusted, documents reveal.

Caroline O'Doherty answers the questions you may be asking about recent revelations in the Maurice McCabe affair.

The controversy surrounding the former Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan is expected to be raised in the Dáil this afternoon.

The Garda Commissioner has said she was not aware of any private meeting between her predecessor Martin Callinan and TD John McGuiness.

Sinn Féin has wound up pressure on justice chiefs to explain why a former Garda commissioner secretly met the head of a parliamentary watchdog over whistle-blower Sergeant Maurice McCabe.

Former Garda commissioner Martin Callinan met the then Public Accounts Committee (PAC) chairman John McGuinness in secret in 2014 to say that Sergeant Maurice McCabe was “not to be trusted” writes Michael Clifford and Daniel McConnell.

Latest: Former Justice Minister Alan Shatter has welcomed the findings of the O'Higgins Commission.

The Garda Ombudsman is examining the circumstances surrounding the death of a man in his 70s while in custody at Westport Garda Station in Co Mayo today.

A report commissioned by the previous Government has found no evidence of garda corruption in the Cavan-Monaghan division in 2007 and 2008.

Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan has ordered an examination into the shredding of “personal papers” by her predecessor Martin Callinan and his missing mobile SIM card.

Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald says authorities need to examine Fennelly report revelations that former garda commissioner Martin Callinan shredded up to 10 bags of “personal” files and was unable to provide a SIM card to his official work phone after retirement.

The extent to which former justice minister Alan Shatter was excluded from top-level talks on the phone recording controversy was due to his perceived closeness to the former Garda commissioner, according to independent TDs Clare Daly and Mick Wallace.

The Fennelly Commission has "debunked" the Opposition's claim that the Taoiseach sought to sack the Garda Commissioner, Leo Varadkar has said.

The Cabinet meets today for the first time since the summer recess - with the focus likely to be the finding in the Fennelly report that former Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan resigned of his own accord.

Good morning. Here’s everything you need to know before you start your day.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny is facing a political storm after the former Garda commissioner, Martin Callinan, said he felt he had been left with no option but to resign after Mr Kenny dispatched a top official to his house over a phone recording scandal.

Caroline O’Doherty puts the spotlight on the events that took place in the hours leading up to Martin Callinan’s retirement as Garda commissioner, from an initial meeting at the Taoiseach’s office to review the issue of telephone recordings, to Department of Justice secretary general Brian Purcell’s visit to the senior garda’s home

Taoiseach Enda Kenny said the Fennelly Commission report clears him of allegations that he sacked the former Garda commissioner, Martin Callinan.

The Fennelly report has found that the Taoiseach Enda Kenny did not sack former Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan.