GSOC publishes bugging report

The Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission has yielded to pressure and released an edited summary of its "fact-finding investigation" into how details of a suspected bugging of GSOC were leaked to The Sunday Times.

The summary shows Mark Connaughton, who carried out the investigation, concluded that The Sunday Times was given confidential information from a “person or persons” associated with the security investigation into the bugging that helped in the preparation of the article which ran last February.

It quotes Mr Connaughton as saying: “I have not been able to establish when he [Sunday Times journalist] received such information, from whom he received it, or indeed, the exact nature of the information disclosed. Indeed it is possible that he had a number of sources, some of which may have been external.”