While progress was seen to be made in some areas of policing at Monday’s meeting of the Garda Authority, the O’Higgins commission’s efforts to access Garda documents exposed the old culture of secrecy, writes Special Correspondent Michael Clifford

Murderer Graham Dwyer is sharing a landing in Midlands Prison with one of the most notorious sex offenders, who is serving life for raping two children.

Sergeant Maurice McCabe made complaints about 16 individual incidents relating to failures by gardaí to investigate reported crimes, internal matters including harassment of officers, and allegations of misconduct by individual members of the force. Caroline O’Doherty and Cormac O’Keeffe report on Seán Guerin’s examination of the matters

The vindicated Garda whistleblower, Sgt Maurice McCabe, should receive a state apology and have his access to the force’s Pulse computer system restored immediately, opposition parties have argued.

The required reading list for the new batch of garda recruits — the first trainees in five years — might be getting a late edition.

The Guerin report into alleged garda misconduct found concerns over the adequacy of the investigations into Sgt McCabe's complaints and whether all appropriate steps were taken.

Allegations of wrongdoing, malpractice and corruption in the Gardaí have claimed a third major scalp with Alan Shatter’s dramatic departure.

A high-profile victim of the Garda whistleblower cases, being examined by a Government-appointed barrister, has hit out at the process after learning she will not be interviewed.

A garda has been given High Court permission to challenge a decision to re-open a disciplinary complaint against him in connection with an investigation involving murderer Jerry McGrath.

IN his speech yesterday, the justice minister made reference to two of the cases included in the dossier compiled by Sergeant Maurice McCabe.

Senior gardaí yesterday insisted all the complaints in the ‘dossier’ at the centre of a Government review have already been “fully investigated” by a high-level team.

Mary Lynch was working her taxi for just over two hours when she encountered Jerry McGrath. It was 2.15am on Monday, April 30, 2007. McGrath emerged from the nightclub in the Headford Arms Hotel in Kells, Co Meath, and asked would she take him to Virginia, Co Cavan, where his sister lived. He was from Dundrum in Tipperary, but was staying with his sister.

A woman attacked by a man who went on to murder Sylvia Roche Kelly in Limerick in December 2007 has claimed the 33-year-old would still be alive if her own case had been handled properly by gardaí.

Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin said he has seen evidence alleging Gardaí failed to properly investigate serious crimes including murder and abduction.

The Gardaí has been accused of bad policing in dozens of investigations into murders, abductions and assaults.

The Garda ombudsman is investigating an allegation of a cover-up within the force in a case involving a criminal who committed murder when he was on bail for serious violent charges.

MARY Lynch heard about the murder on the nine o’clock news. It said a woman had been beaten to death and gardaí were looking for a 23-year-old man.

Connections of Black Thunder are hoping their plan can come to fruition as their charge lines up in today’s William Hill Lanzarote Hurdle at Kempton.

Nicky Henderson is now by far and away the most successful trainer in Cheltenham Festival history after an incredible four-timer took him four clear of Fulke Walwyn’s record of 40.

Jerry McGrath, 21 years of age from Waterfall, Co Cork and who learned much of his trade with the Muskerry Pony Club, drove Une Artiste to victory in the Fred Winter Juvenile Handicap Hurdle at Cheltenham yesterday afternoon.

The man accused of killing Sylvia Roche Kelly at a Limerick City hotel has been sent forward for trial at the Central Criminal Court.

A TIPPERARY man was further remanded in custody on a charge of murder when he made a brief appearance yesterday at Limerick District Court.