Martin Callinan: Good cop turned bad?

Caroline O’Doherty looks at Martin Callinan’s record prior to this very damaging, badly handled scandal

IN a bizarre turn of events, Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan found himself this past week at the centre of a ‘good cop, bad cop’ routine in which he played neither role.

Instead he was caught in the middle of a tense scene, with Enda Kenny, Phil Hogan and James Reilly placing a reassuring hand on his shoulder and empathising with his position while Leo Varadkar, Eamon Gilmore, Joan Burton and Pat Rabbitte scowled in his face, barking demands for confession and repentance.