The McCabe scandal - A criminal investigation is necessary

THE arrangements agreed yesterday between Taoiseach Enda Kenny and his supply-and-demand colleague Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin have restored a degree of stability at Leinster House. 

The immediate, almost-out-of-control situation has been temporarily calmed but the potential of the McCabe scandal to wreak havoc remains as high as ever, possibly even more so as a proposal for a public rather than a secret tribunal of inquiry has been agreed.