Diary records show that former garda commissioner Nóirín O'Sullivan was in London on the day a garda HR executive says she attended a meeting, after which he was told they were “going after” whistleblower Sgt Maurice McCabe.

The Disclosures Tribunal has heard that two diaries contradict the recollection of John Barrett about a comment made to "go after" Maurice McCabe at the O’Higgins Commission.

An attempt to introduce the Garda handling of an historic abuse allegation made against whistleblower Sgt Maurice McCabe at the O’Higgins Commission was made solely for the purpose of embarrassing the sergeant, the Charleton Tribunal has been told.

Concerns were expressed in a government department about the setting up of a controversial unit in An Garda Síochána to liaise with the Disclosures Tribunal, according to documents seen by the Irish Examiner.

An independent barrister is likely to be appointed, potentially as soon as this weekend, to oversee an external inquiry into why the Department of Justice failed to hand over key Maurice McCabe email files to the Charleton Tribunal.

How much oversight is too much? One thing that has emerged from the shenanigans of the last week or so is that the gardaí and the Department of Justice could do with plenty of oversight.

Acting Garda commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin has contacted the Department of Justice with a senior Garda official’s concerns about the force’s internal Disclosures Tribunal unit.

As Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald yesterday confronted the strengthening possibility that she might become the second justice minister to lose a cabinet seat over one of the scandals that have so altered the perception of An Garda Síochána, another episode in our culture war played out in a Leinster House committee room when senior gardaí were guests of the Public Accounts Committee.

Transport Minister Shane Ross is facing fresh claims that he pulled a “political stroke” by ensuring Stepaside Garda Station was re-opened after a senior garda officer said the facility “would not have been my number one priority”.

A leading member of the cross-party Dáil public accounts committee has warned Government there is nothing in the now published Stepaside garda station re-opening report that changes her view what happened was a “political stroke”.

Martin Callinan and Nóirín O’Sullivan are now civilians, yet both are represented by the same legal team as the Garda force at the Disclosures Tribunal, comments Special Correspondent Michael Clifford.

The senior leadership of An Garda Síochána meets this morning for what has been described as a crucial bid to “steady the ship”.

In the end, Noirin O’Sullivan was incapable of escaping the culture that moulded her, writes Michael Clifford.

THE PAC v O’Sullivan fight has gone the full 15 rounds. But at the end of it, the Garda Commissioner is still standing in the ring, writes Cormac O’Keeffe.

A detailed Dáil report into the garda college financial scandal is set to be published next Tuesday — and will severely criticise garda commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan over her handling of the affair.

The Central Bank will write to the cross-party Public Accounts Committee (PAC) this week in response to calls for it to investigate a privately held AIB account and the St Raphael’s credit union’s links to the garda college.

The Central Bank has been asked to intervene in the Garda college financial scandal by opening a fresh examination into the St Raphael’s Garda credit union.

One of the country’s most senior civilian gardaí has claimed he was subjected to a “whispering campaign” for highlighting the garda college financial scandal and that colleagues who raised similar concerns risked being demoted.

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A member of Garda management told the force’s head of human resources, John Barrett, that there would be an attempt to target Sgt Maurice McCabe at the O’Higgins Commission, according to documents submitted to the Charleton Tribunal.

The Garda Ombudsman has been asked to investigate suspected fraudulent activity involving a secret bank account held in the name of former gardaí.

Senior gardaí told the Public Accounts Committee that the controversial redistribution and investment of funds at the Garda College was done with the aim of developing facilities at the Templemore training campus.

The Dáil Public Accounts Committee has heard evidence contradicting the Garda commissioner’s account of when she learned about financial irregularities at Templemore training college.

The Public Accounts Committee will hear from more senior Gardaí today, as it continues its probe into financial irregularities at the Garda Training College in Templemore.

Garda management is to be questioned over the sudden resignation of Garda whistle- blower John Barrett from a key ethics committee at the Public Accounts committee today. 

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The civilian head of human resources in An Garda Siochána, John Barrett, who found himself in conflict with the Garda Commissioner, has stepped down as the force’s representative on the Policing Authority’s Ethics committee.

As the dust settles on Wednesday’s Public Accounts Committee hearing into Templemore College, what are the issues facing Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan when she appears before it again on June 14?

Two civilian members of the gardaí have directly contradicted formal evidence by Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan, insisting she knew about the Garda college financial scandal a month earlier than previously claimed.

Garda Commissioner Noirin O'Sullivan was urged to tell the Justice Minister of financial irregularities at Templemore training college as early as the middle of July 2015, a committee has heard.

The head of the gardaí’s internal audit unit has said his “direct superiors” tried to block a probe into the Garda college scandal, “withheld” information and tried to “undermine” his position when the inquiry began.

Fresh Garda documents sent to the Public Accounts Committee reveal deep divisions among senior civil servants within An Garda Síochána.

The Public Accounts Committee, examining a series of financial scandals at the Templemore Garda College, are to grill eight civilian members of the force next week — without Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan being present.

Nóirín O’Sullivan’s remarks on the gardaí are at odds with many other accounts, writes Michael Clifford.

The whistleblower who revealed the Garda college financial scandal has alleged he was met with a “deafening silence” by senior officials after raising the scale of the escalating controversy.

The Garda Commissioner has insisted she did not mislead the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) and said there was “no difference of opinion” between her and the force’s human resources chief, John Barrett.

It is an indication of how very low expectations around An Garda Síochána have fallen that, when contradictory evidence is offered to the Oireachtas PAC by Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan and the force’s HR director, civilian John Barrett, the situation seems almost unremarkable.

The head of internal audit in the Garda Síochána has said he was “duped” into setting aside his inquiries into financial irregularities at the Garda College by reassurances from senior management that matters were being addressed.

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.

The review into the alleged mistreatment of garda whistleblowers could be widened into a full-blown inquiry, Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald’s office has said.

East Limerick is set to twist, jive and hucklebuck in celebration of one of the country’s most famous ballrooms which was destroyed in a fire last weekend.