Gaping hole in Kenny’s story on bugging

New recording revelations must not be a distraction, says Political Editor Mary Regan.

A RUNNING trend in the ongoing series of controversies hanging over the Department of Justice is that every time we try to get to the bottom of one element of the story, a new revelation is thrown into the mix.

And so it was in the Dáil yesterday when the Fianna Fáil leader, Micheál Martin, probed Enda Kenny about the internal government handling of information on phone bugging in Garda stations, when the Taoiseach revealed that some phone calls in prisons were inadvertently recorded.