The Fennelly inquiry has told the highest levels of government that any leaks of its interim report on the resignation of the garda commissioner constitute an offence and that recipients have a month to reply to findings. 

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has been accused of attempting to bury the independent report into why ex-garda commissioner Martin Callinan suddenly retired last year.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has indicated the report of a judicial inquiry into the departure of former garda commissioner Martin Callinan would be published in the “not too distant future”.

HOW do you solve a problem like the public? That’s the dilemma for the Taoiseach, Enda Kenny, as he faces into a seriously challenging political year.

By Mary Regan, Political Editor, Irish Examiner