I was wrongly forced to quit

Alan Shatter has suggested he was wrongly forced to resign from Government because of the findings of the Guerin report which he lambasted as "fundamentally flawed" and akin to a "kangaroo court".

The former justice minister said Taoiseach Enda Kenny was not aware of the full story when he derived information from the “mistaken conclusion that I had failed in some respects in my statutory obligation”.

He said the Dáil must revisit the report into allegations of Garda malpractice before the terms of reference are drawn up for a full statutory inquiry.