Caroline O’Doherty looks at Martin Callinan’s record prior to this very damaging, badly handled scandal

The Smithwick Tribunal’s inability to name the mole in Dundalk Garda Station in March 1989 casts a shadow over every member of the force who served there, says Michael Clifford.

Justice Minister Alan Shatter has received the Garda Inspectorate report into the operation of the penalty points system.

The Oireachtas Justice Committee is to consider inviting former Garda confidential recipient Oliver Connolly to appear and answer questions about how he handled whistleblower complaints.

Frank McBrearty Jnr, whose family were famously the victims of Garda corruption in Co Donegal, has called for a public inquiry into policing.

The confidential garda recipient was a key institution set up to help address the chronic failures identified by the Morris Tribunal into endemic corruption in the Donegal division.

A new poll published this morning shows a drop in support for Sinn Féin.

The Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan has said he has yet to find any evidence in the Smithwick Tribunal report to warrant an internal inquiry.

The Coalition appears to have benefited from the clean exit from the troika bailout with support for both parties up a combined seven percentage points from a previous poll.

The conclusion of the Smithwick Tribunal that Garda officers colluded in the murder of Superintendents Breen and Buchanan is deeply disturbing, and if it is true that one or more members of An Garda Síochána colluded with the IRA in the murders of superintendents Breen and Buchanan, then not only are they guilty of murder, but they let down an entire police force.

Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams has refused to withdraw his “highly offensive” comments in the wake of the Smithwick Tribunal report, saying it was nonsense to suggest he blamed the RUC officers for their own deaths.

IF IT really was a “war” in the North as Gerry Adams claims, then where were the rules of war?

EVERY now and again, the past rises up to smite the present, and last week presented once such prime example.

Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams yesterday refused to withdraw his comments on the murder of RUC officers Harry Breen and Bob Buchanan saying it was nonsense to suggest he blamed the policemen for their own deaths.

Former Garda sergeant Leo Colton has rejected the Smithwick findings that he was trusted by the Provisional IRA and helped them to get false passports.

The Garda commissioner said he is horrified that a collusion inquiry has found a terrorist mole in the ranks of the force gave the IRA a tip-off that led to the ambush and murder of two RUC officers.

In describing the findings of the Smithwick Tribunal report as “absolutely shocking”, Taoiseach Enda Kenny spoke for the vast majority of the Irish people, north and south.

Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams was left isolated tonight after he claimed two of the most senior RUC officers killed by the IRA had only themselves to blame.

A former Garda has rejected the findings of a tribunal that he was trusted by Provos and helped members get their hands on false passports

Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan has said he is horrified by the findings of Garda collusion in the murders of two senior RUC officers in 1989.

Justice Minister Alan Shatter has denied that the reputation of An Garda Síochána has been damaged as a result of the findings of the Smithwick Tribunal.

Retired garda sergeant Leo Colton was trusted by Provos and helped members get false passports, the Smithwick Tribunal found.

Evidence shows Owen Corrigan passed information to the IRA — but it cannot be proved he colluded in the murders of Harry Breen and Bob Buchanan, the tribunal found.

The long-awaited report into allegations of Garda collusion in the IRA murder of two senior RUC men has been handed over to the Dáil.

A long-awaited report into allegations of Garda collusion in the IRA murder of two senior RUC men will be handed over to the Government today.

The Tánaiste has said cross border policing relations have never been better despite the Garda Commissioner’s recent criticisms of the PSNI.

A judge has been criticised for seeking discovery of bank statements on what was meant to be the last day of a lengthy inquiry into alleged IRA/Garda collusion.

British security services tried to frame a Garda sergeant over the murder of two senior police officers from the North to distract attention from their own collusion, an inquiry has heard.

Justice Minister Alan Shatter has criticised the judiciary for sending too many people to prison.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has branded the apology Gerry Adams issued over the murder of Garda Jerry McCabe as “ironic”.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has hit out at republicans who have refused to give evidence at the Smithwick tribunal into IRA-Garda collusion.

Justice Minister Alan Shatter has said the family of Pat Finucane is entitled to know the full truth about his murder.

Senior gardaí passed sensitive information to members of the Provisional IRA (Pira) during the Troubles, a major collusion inquiry has been told.

The deadline for an inquiry into alleged Garda and IRA collusion in the murder of two senior RUC officers during the Troubles has been extended.

The former head of the Irish Republic’s forensic state laboratory has said he is surprised no-one was ever prosecuted for the IRA killing of 18 British soldiers.

Police on both sides of the Irish border must launch fresh investigations into the murder of two top RUC officers following intelligence reports of Garda collusion in the killings, the family of one of the men has said.

The deadline for an inquiry into alleged Garda and IRA collusion in the murder of two senior RUC officers during the Troubles has been extended.

The Government will consider extending the deadline for an inquiry into alleged Garda collusion with the IRA in the murder of two senior RUC officers during the Troubles.

IRA bosses have claimed that false information is being fed to a collusion inquiry into the deaths of two senior RUC officers to bring it to an end.

Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin has criticised what he said was an “extraordinary slight” on the legacy of former taoiseach Jack Lynch by reports about the Smithwick Tribunal.

Gardaí were ordered by a former Taoiseach not to cooperate with an investigation into the IRA killing of 18 British soldiers because of paratroopers’ involvement in the Bloody Sunday shootings in Derry, it was claimed tonight.

A former Taoiseach ordered Garda chiefs not to co-operate with an investigation into an IRA attack which killed 18 British soldiers in 1979, it has been alleged at a tribunal.

A British agent who infiltrated the IRA has claimed today that a convicted bomb-maker was also a secret informer.

A former British double agent in the IRA has denied being a pathological liar over claims a suspected Garda mole destroyed evidence from one of the worst atrocities in the Troubles.