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 Daily Mail journalist has told the Charleton Tribunal that she believed a colleague who allegedly told her a garda whistleblower was a child abuser was “being used” by somebody.

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.