Garda arrested after Roma inquiry

The boundaries of the legal protection given to gardaí to disclose information to the media is expected to play a key part in determining the course of a high-profile investigation into alleged leaks.

A garda was arrested yesterday morning in what was the culmination of the first phase of a top-level internal probe into the findings of the so-called Roma inquiry report, published last July.

The inquiry, conducted by the then ombudsman for children, Emily Logan, was set up by the Government to examine the Garda handling of the cases of two Roma children who were removed from their families by gardaí on suspicion that they were abducted.