Gardaí to be quizzed after whistleblower quits key role

Garda management is to be questioned over the sudden resignation of Garda whistle- blower John Barrett from a key ethics committee at the Public Accounts committee today. 

The officers are set to be questioned on the issue, and also on a series of other financial scandals at the Garda college, amid separate calls for the Official Secrets Act to be scrapped because it could block further Garda whistleblower revelations.

As revealed in yesterday’s Irish Examiner, the gardaí’s civilian head of human resources John Barrett has resigned from the Policing Authority’s ethics committee in response to his ongoing dispute with Garda commissioner Noirin O’Sullivan and others over the Garda college scandal.