GSOC probe was one-sided, says judge

A judge yesterday described a GSOC investigation into a road traffic accident, involving an off-duty garda in 2013, as “one of the most one-sided I have ever seen”.

Judge Kevin Kilrane yesterday told Sligo District Court GSOC had “ignored” vital evidence, and the way they “carried out their function was quite disgraceful”.

He upheld a court costs order in favour of a Co Westmeath couple, Maeve and Fintan O’Brien from Castletown-Geoghegan, Mullingar, who were charged with giving false and misleading information to a GSOC officer in May 2013.