Maurice McCabe: Garda culture makes it hard to speak out

Sgt Maurice McCabe said the Garda culture makes it “extremely hard to speak out” and said that those who do are “certainly isolated and alone”.

In his first-ever public evidence, he said there is an element of the force “that blank you and not speak to you” and there were places he was “not welcome”.

Dressed in his sergeant’s uniform, he told the Disclosures Tribunal that he never once got hate mail “even up to today” and that he had received 300-400 cards from people all over the country supporting him.