Garda Commissioner breaks silence on instructions to her legal team
Under-pressure garda commissioner Noirin O Sullivan has denied her legal team was instructed to "impugn the integrity" of whistle-blower Maurice McCabe or to claim he was acting maliciously, .
The head of An Garda Siochana made the claim in a lengthy statement released today just hours before a high-profile Dáil debate on the controversial O'Higgins report .
