Caroline O’Doherty puts the spotlight on the events that took place in the hours leading up to Martin Callinan’s retirement as Garda commissioner, from an initial meeting at the Taoiseach’s office to review the issue of telephone recordings, to Department of Justice secretary general Brian Purcell’s visit to the senior garda’s home

Justice Minister Alan Shatter is expected to stand over his department’s handling of a Garda whistleblower’s complaints and make a statement to the Dáil tomorrow.

COMMUNITIES are to get a greater say in the policing of their areas under a new scheme being finalised by the Department of Justice.

THE head of the Garda Complaints Board is to go on a fact-finding mission to England next Monday to see how their newly established police inspectorate works.