Shatter gave no aid over McCabe death threat

The wife of Garda whistleblower Maurice McCabe said she got no help from Alan Shatter when she wrote to him about a death threat against her family.

Lorraine McCabe wrote to Mr Shatter on April 6, 2011, around six months after her husband first made a complaint to his bosses involving around 40 cases of malpractice and corruption.

She told the minister she wanted to make a complaint against Assistant Commissioner Derek Byrne, to whom her husband had presented his complaints.