Was Dónal de Róiste disgraced because he wouldn’t tell a lie?

Donal de Roiste may have been the youngest ever public servant in Irish history to have retired.

He was just 24 at the time. Except he didn’t voluntarily retire. He “was retired”. That’s a rather odd way of describing what happened to him, but it’s the term that was used. He was “retired” by the President at the behest of the Government.

What did he do wrong? We don’t know. What crime was he charged with? None. Who gave evidence against him? No one, at least not to his face.