Máire Whelan: Alan Shatter won’t say if he supports Enda Kenny

Former justice minister Alan Shatter has refused to say if Taoiseach Enda Kenny and under-fire attorney general Máire Whelan have his full confidence after the Fennelly report revelations.

The Fine Gael TD said he is “not going to be, at this time, a commentator on the report”, and does not want to “colour” other people’s opinions when asked to give his verdict on the head of Government and Ireland’s most senior legal expert.

The interim report by Justice Niall Fennelly into the retirement of ex-garda commissioner Martin Callinan on March 25, 2014, raised serious concerns over Mr Kenny’s and Ms Whelan’s roles in the affair.