Kenny and gardaí - Diary ‘error’ raises more questions

Shatter-gate and the story of the Garda whistleblowers refuse to go away.

In the latest chapter of this troubling saga, the Taoiseach has been forced to deny claims of an early morning meeting with then justice minister Alan Shatter just hours before the Garda tapes scandal came to light on the Sunday before former Garda commissioner Martin Callinan stepped down.

According to Sinn Féin, the Taoiseach’s diary, obtained through a Freedom of Information request, includes an entry of a previously unknown meeting with the former minister. If that proved to be accurate, it would mean the Taoiseach met the ex-minister hours before Mr Kenny says he learned about the Garda tapes affair from the attorney general and not the next day as he informed the public.