Garda Commissioner’s legal team ‘not instructed to impugn’ Maurice McCabe

Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan has denied her legal team was instructed to “impugn the integrity” of whistleblower Maurice McCabe or to claim he was acting maliciously.

Ms O’Sullivan has come under intense pressure to explain her role in reported orders to lawyers to undermine the credibility of Sgt McCabe, which were leaked in recent weeks.

The vast majority of his claims of negligence and malpractice were proven in the O’Higgins Report, which found him to be a man of integrity who should be thanked for his whistle-blowing.