Nóirín O’Sullivan strode down from the witness box at the lunch break in the Disclosures Tribunal yesterday, spotted Maurice McCabe and his wife Lorraine, and extended a warm greeting to the couple.

A senior garda told the Disclosure Tribunal that a perceived grievance of Sergeant Maurice McCabe was the “spark that lit the fuse” in adopting a Garda legal strategy to target the motivation and credibility of Sgt McCabe at the O’Higgins commission in 2015.

Did the commissioner of An Garda Síochána wrongly attempt to discredit a Garda whistleblower behind the closed doors of a statutory inquiry?

A garda witness has told the Charleton Tribunal that former Commissioner Nóirín O'Sullivan did not contribute to a document which outlined legal instructions to challenge whistleblower Maurice McCabe's motivation.

Was there an attempt to smear Sgt Maurice McCabe behind the closed doors of a statutory inquiry? That matter forms the basis of the current module of the Disclosures Tribunal at Dublin Castle.

Maurice McCabe tried to have details of the DPP’s decision not to prosecute him on a sexual assault complaint released to colleagues and family of the complainant in order to clear his name but senior gardaí refused to support his efforts.

Few would ever have to endure their personal lives being exposed to the public glare as Marisa Simms did yesterday, writes Michael Clifford.

A Garda sergeant at the Charleton Tribunal has said that taking a victim statement was “not an exact science”, when asked about a statement made by the partner of a Garda whistleblower.

A garda sergeant at the Charleton Tribunal has said that taking a victim statement was "not an exact science," when asked about a statement made by the partner of a garda whistleblower.

A social worker was unable to explain the "total silence" after an error led to false allegations being placed in reports she created on the children of garda whistleblower Sgt Maurice McCabe at the Charleton tribunal.

A Polish man, who two weeks ago prevented his extradition by refusing to board a plane at Dublin Airport because of an expressed fear of flying, was yesterday allowed to remain in the State until an appeal against his surrender by air is heard next week.

A man who broke into a Dublin church with a knife to steal items to feed his drug habit has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

We the Board of the Irish Penal Reform Trust, Ireland’s leading penal reform NGO, write to express our serious and collective concern in respect to s.55 Charities Act 2009.

A man who sexually abused his step-daughter over 100 times has been sentenced to eight years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Two Dublin men caught in possession of €2.5m worth of cannabis resin have had their ten and 14-year sentences reduced by a total of three years on appeal.

A DOUBLE murderer who fled to Ireland after serving a “life” sentence in England has consented to his extradition to Britain.

A criminal, who is serving a six-year sentence for assaulting a Norwegian tourist which left him with severe head injuries and a serious speech impediment, has been given a concurrent three-year term for a burglary.

A man who knocked a teenager and his seven-year-old brother off a bicycle and then robbed it and a mobile phone has been given a two year sentence by Judge Frank O'Donnell at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Pub and nightclub inspections by gardai enforcing the liquor licensing law should be a quick-run strategy and not a prolonged exercise, the Morris Tribunal heard today.

A garda sergeant who spent two years during the late 1990s in Raphoe, Co Donegal, today told a tribunal she believed the small town was lawless and plagued with anti-social behaviour.

A woman who used a Spanish national’s American Express credit card to buy clothes from Brown Thomas and holidays in Hawaii has been remanded on bail for sentence on July 21.

The Special Criminal Court today cancelled an arrest warrant for the Belfast man who died after shooting himself in a garda station last month.