John McGuinness: I was right not to reveal Callinan meeting earlier

John McGuinness, the former chairman of the Dáil’s Public Accounts Committee, has rejected criticisms of his decision to only reveal, last week, his secret meeting with ex-garda commissioner Martin Callinan.

Mr McGuinness, speaking to the Irish Examiner, has defended his decision to reveal in the Dáil last Thursday the controversial meeting which took place on January 24, 2014, in a hotel car park outside Dublin.

He was pressed yesterday as to why he did not reveal the meeting to the recently-completed O’Higgins commission but he insisted it was not relevant to that inquiry.