Gardaí stay quiet on abuse probe

An Garda Síochána repeatedly refused to make any information available to the Irish Examiner on its two-year investigation into how gardaí handled allegations of clerical abuse in the Murphy Report.

Over the weekend, following the publication of chapter 20, Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan confirmed that just one file was sent to the DPP after an investigation by assistant commissioner John O’Mahoney. The DPP decided not to prosecute.

The previously redacted chapter 20 of the Dublin Archdiocese report revealed an “inappropriate relationship” between gardaí and the Catholic Church and how complaints to gardaí about serial paedophile Fr Patrick McCabe were “stifled” internally.