Casualties of cover-up culture

THOSE are some waves that Maurice McCabe made. Yesterday’s publication of the review of the Department of Justice is just one in a long line of outcomes from McCabe’s persistence in attempting to highlight wrongdoing in An Garda Síochána.

A minister, a garda commissioner, and the secretary general of the department have now all left their posts, directly as a result of McCabe’s persistence. More importantly, the oversight of the Force is to be transformed, and the department is to get a much needed makeover. Not a bad day’s work for a lowly garda sergeant.

The most pressing question to come out of yesterday’s review is the one that won’t go away. Was Martin Callinan effectively sacked as garda commissioner in the name of political expediency?