Superintendent David Taylor denies claims over messages

Sgt Maurice McCabe has said he was “1,000%” certain he was told that former Garda commissioner Martin Callinan had sent “hundreds of texts” to his then press officer to smear him with false child sex abuse claims.

However, counsel for the former press officer, Superintendent David Taylor, yesterday told the Disclosures Tribunal that her client rejected he ever said this.

The two men met at Supt Taylor’s home for three hours on September 20, 2016.