Maurice McCabe Interviewed: ‘This took six years out of all our lives’

Maurice McCabe won a Person of the Year award over the weekend. It has been a long and arduous journey through murky waters to expose Garda wrongdoing, he tells Michael Clifford

AS HE walked up to accept his award as a Person of the Year on Saturday, Maurice McCabe may well have reflected on the past 12 months.

This time last year, his world was a dark place. His efforts to highlight the abuse of the penalty points system, and its cost in terms of lives and money, was hitting a succession of brick walls.