Michael Clifford: David Taylor said he sent out Maurice McCabe smears

In any good whodunnit, the search for the smoking gun becomes the focal point.

How much deeper the mystery becomes when the character who would benefit most from the weapons’s discovery declares it would never in fact be found smoking but merely a bit whiffy from being hidden in someone’s back pocket.

That’s the baffling puzzle the Disclosures Tribunal is left to decipher as Supt David Taylor finds himself at odds with yet another witness about the alleged smear campaign against Garda whistleblower, Sergeant Maurice McCabe.