Former Garda assistant commissioner backs calls for inquiry into Evan Fitzgerald case

A former assistant Garda commissioner has backed calls for an independent inquiry into the garda handling of the Evan Fitzgerald case — the young man who took his own life in a Carlow shopping centre shooting.

Pat Leahy said “a public trust and confidence issue” has emerged about the case in which an undercover garda operation was used to sell decommissioned weapons to Mr Fitzgerald after a tip-off that he was attempting to source weapons on the dark web.

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