Detective pleads guilty to leaking confidential report

A GARDA will be sentenced next month after pleading guilty to passing a confidential report to a newspaper reporter.

Detective Sergeant Robert McNulty, 49, pleaded guilty before Judge Patricia Ryan in the Dublin circuit court yesterday to passing on the report on the Dean Lyons Inquiry before its official publication.

McNulty, who is from Rathfarnham, is the first garda to be charged and subsequently plead guilty to the offence.