A social worker who wrote a letter to garda whistleblower Sergeant Maurice McCabe in December 2015 containing false allegations of sexual abuse has denied she was “a puppet of the gardaí”.

A social worker who wrote a letter to garda whistle blower Sgt Maurice McCabe in December 2015 containing false allegations of sexual abuse has denied she was "a puppet of the gardaí".

A witness has told the Charleton Tribunal that gardaí had nothing to do with the errors which lead to a file containing false allegations of sexual abuse against garda whistleblower Sgt Maurice McCabe.

A senior Tusla manager has accepted that the buck stops with him in relation to errors made in handling false allegations of child abuse against garda whistleblower Sgt Maurice McCabe.