Maurice McCabe: An extraordinary career and huge service to the State by illustrating wrongs in the force

Retirement is the only option for Maurice McCabe, but he retires knowing a tribunal determined not just that he did his job properly, but that there was a campaign to destroy his reputation because he exposed wrongdoing in the force, writes Special Correspondent Michael Clifford.

Maurice McCabe’s retirement from An Garda Síochána today brings the curtain down on one of the most extraordinary careers seen in the force.

His departure comes two weeks after the publication of the Disclosures Tribunal, which was followed by apologies from An Taoiseach, the minister for justice and the Garda commissioner.