O’Higgins report: Disciplinary proceedings against gardaí implicated ‘would not be helpful’

The O’Higgins report into complaints by whistleblower Sergeant Maurice McCabe has said any disciplinary proceedings against gardaí implicated “would not be helpful”.

Mr Justice Kevin O’Higgins said he hoped that with the closing of his inquiry, gardaí in Bailieboro could “put the unhappy events... behind them”.

These events included a litany of flawed investigations and prosecutions and poor treatment of victims, which the judge said were mainly due to “failures” of probationary gardaí and their supervisors.