Taoiseach to press ministers for Maurice McCabe answers

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar will today seek answers from Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan and Tánaiste Frances Fitzgerald as to what his department knew about an attempt to undermine Garda whistleblower Maurice McCabe in 2015.

Speaking to the Irish Examiner, Mr Varadkar said he “wants to speaks to them first” before he reaches a view on it amid calls from Labour’s Alan Kelly for him to give “career-defining” answers on the controversy.

Mr Kelly tabled another series of questions to Mr Flanagan and Ms Fitzgerald seeking to find out whether they have supplied any information to the O’Neill and Charleton inquiries about the McCabe issue.