Nóirín O’Sullivan tells of facing an ‘almost impossible dilemma’

Nóirín O’Sullivan strode down from the witness box at the lunch break in the Disclosures Tribunal yesterday, spotted Maurice McCabe and his wife Lorraine, and extended a warm greeting to the couple.

It was as if old friends had bumped into each other in Dublin Castle, amid the battery of lawyers, and took the opportunity to catch up.

This module of the tribunal into alleged attempts to smear Sgt McCabe might not have been necessary if Ms O’Sullivan had a similar inclination in the early days of the O’Higgins commission.