Review of 105 child abuse cases

Gardaí are examining 105 child abuse cases the Garda Inspectorate has raised concerns about to ensure they have been investigated properly.

Senior sources also said they hope to clear persistent backlogs in the examination of computers in child abuse cases by early 2019.

And they contradicted findings by the inspectorate that they were not using technology that they had to identify computers in real time that were accessing child abuse material (CAM).