Mick Clifford: Eight years after Maurice McCabe, nothing has changed for Garda whistleblowers

After the Maurice McCabe case, a clean-up operation in which whistleblowers were to be accommodated and listened to within An Garda Síochána was initiated and a new office to accept protected disclosures was established. However, emerging reports suggest the prevailing culture within the force still exists

Maurice McCabe (pictured) was found by judge Peter Charleton in the Disclosures Tribunal to be 'a genuine person' who had 'done the State considerable service'. File photo: Leah Farrell/RollingNews.ie

The Maurice McCabe case was supposed to be the closing of an arc. 

In the aftermath, everything was on the table. Change was inevitable. A commission on the future of policing was set up and peopled with heads who really knew their stuff.