GSOC allegations - Clarification is needed urgently

Commentary based on speculation, or speculation based unconfirmed reports, is usually best avoided but exceptional circumstances very occasionally make it unavoidable.

The Sunday Times report that the offices of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission were targeted by an unknown agency for electronic espionage is certainly such a moment.

Even a society grown weary, almost made insensitive, by the litany of catastrophe and austerity forced upon us by economic collapse, even in a society almost inured to the horrors of institutional and institutionalised child abuse, of protected paedophile rings, the implications of this story, if it is confirmed and this point there is no reason to expect that it might not be, are seismic.