Sergeant Maurice McCabe’s complaints about Garda failures and malpractice centred on a number of key incidents of criminal investigations in the Cavan-Monaghan division, where injured parties were badly let down and where he felt his attempts to draw the attention of senior officers to the problems were not properly addressed.

Sergeant Maurice McCabe made complaints about 16 individual incidents relating to failures by gardaí to investigate reported crimes, internal matters including harassment of officers, and allegations of misconduct by individual members of the force. Caroline O’Doherty and Cormac O’Keeffe report on Seán Guerin’s examination of the matters

The required reading list for the new batch of garda recruits — the first trainees in five years — might be getting a late edition.

GARDAÍ in Limerick were still questioning a Tipperary man last night about the death of Sylvia Roche-Kelly in a Limerick city hotel at the weekend.

Investigations are continuing into the death of a woman whose body was found in a bathtub at a hotel in Limerick city at the weekend.