Frances Fitzgerald concerned issues were not being resolved

Former tánaiste Frances Fitzgerald directly contacted the Garda commissioner in 2015 to raise concerns that issues relating to whistleblower Maurice McCabe were not being resolved.

Appearing before the Disclosures Tribunal, Ms Fitzgerald detailed how she had first met Sgt McCabe in October 2014 in her office.

Ms Fitzgerald will continue to give evidence today at the tribunal, which is examining whether unjustified grounds were inappropriately relied upon by the former garda commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan to discredit whistleblower Sgt McCabe at the O’Higgins commission of investigation.