Michael Clifford: Little substance to Taylor’s many claims

Supt David Taylor has a few problems, writes Michael Clifford. He has accused two former Garda commissioners of serious malpractice, but in three days of testimony he failed to put meat on the bones of his allegations.

He has claimed that when he was head of the Garda press office in 2013, the then commissioner, Martin Callinan, directed him to blacken the character of Sgt Maurice McCabe in dealings with reporters.