I made conscious decision not to interfere, Frances Fitzgerald tells tribunal

Former Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald said she made "a conscious decision" not to interfere after she was told that a legal argument had broken out between lawyers for the garda commissioner and whistleblower Sgt Maurice McCabe in 2015, writes Gerard Cunningham.

An email copied to the minister said that the garda legal team at the O'Higgins Commission of Investigation had raised "a serious criminal complaint" against Sgt McCabe which had been investigated a decade earlier.