Let’s tackle it now before a few bad apples rot the garda barrel

PETER CORY, the Canadian judge who was appointed to investigate suspected police collusion in eight murders in both the North and Republic, has produced his reports.

The British government had not released the judge’s conclusions in relation to four cases involving suspected collusion with loyalist killers in the North, but our Government has published his report raising serious questions about alleged garda collusion in the March 1989 murders of RUC Chief Superintendent Harry Breen and Superintendent Bob Buchanan.

The RUC officers, the two most senior members of the force killed during the Troubles, were returning from a meeting with gardaí in Dundalk when they were ambushed shortly after crossing the border.