Martin Callinan denies TD’s account of meeting

Former Garda commissioner Martin Callinan has rejected accounts of a meeting where it was claimed he told a Fianna Fáil TD that whistleblower Maurice McCabe was not to be trusted, documents reveal.

But Mr Callinan did confirm to a judge-led inquiry that he met with John McGuinness in January, 2014, just days before he appeared before the Public Accounts Committee.

Mr McGuinness previously revealed in the Dáil that during the carpark meeting he was warned that Mr McCabe was not trustworthy.