Curious timing and a bizarre lack of information-sharing on garda tapes

After a week of revelations, seven hours of Dáil debate, scores of opinions, and a few conspiracy theories, many questions still remain about the twin controversies of the Garda phone recordings and the whistleblower allegations.

Why did the attorney general not move faster to inform the Taoiseach about the illegal recording of phone conversations in Garda stations?

Máire Whelan, the attorney general, was informed in November by Martin Callinan, who resigned as Garda Commissioner this week, that recording had been taking place but she only told Taoiseach Enda Kenny last Sunday.