Collateral damage of Smithwick Tribunal on the road to justice

The Smithwick Tribunal’s inability to name the mole in Dundalk Garda Station in March 1989 casts a shadow over every member of the force who served there, says Michael Clifford.

LET’S for a second imagine that serious corruption had been unearthed inside the Fine Gael parliamentary party.

This body of 94 upstanding politicians would immediately be thrust under a cloud. In this hypothetical scenario, it will emerge that three parliamentarians are under strong suspicion of being involved in this corruption.