Garda Ombudsman to publish Boylan report ‘in weeks’

THE Garda Ombudsman is expected to publish a report in the coming weeks on dealings between gardaí and the Department of Transport over the issuing of a haulage licence to convicted drug dealer Kieran Boylan.

The Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (GSOC) is believed to have made the decision because of mounting public concern and allegations of a cover-up, reflected by raising the matter in the Dáil yesterday on a number of occasions.

Sources told the Irish Examiner the report should be compiled “fairly quickly, in a matter of weeks”, depending on the speed of document delivery by transport officials and gardaí. The commission is “almost certainly” going to make the bulk of its findings public, the source said.