Gardaí face fake breath test report difficulties

Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan’s failure to deliver an internal audit report into 1m fake breath tests and fixed-charge notices has been blamed on “considerable difficulties” in gathering facts, several months after the scandal broke, writes Daniel McConnell and Fiachra Ó Cionnaith.

A “confidential” internal Garda report into the affair, drafted by Assistant Commissioner Michael O’Sullivan and seen by the Irish Examiner, has stated the process will not be completed until July 31, after the Dáil rises for the summer.