Ex garda fined for leaking report to newspaper

A former senior garda has been given a suspended sentence and a €5,000 fine for leaking a confidential government report to an Evening Herald reporter.

Now-retired Detective Sergeant Robert McNulty (aged 50) had been "obsessed" with restoring his reputation since coming under a 2006 public inquiry into the Dean Lyons case and had denied contacting reporter Mick McCaffrey, whose fingerprints were found on his copy of the draft report.