Limited report just deepens cynicism

The timing of the publication of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission report into the investigation of the West Cork murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier in 1996 must provoke deep cynicism.

It was released on the eve of a bank holiday weekend and after the Dáil had broken up for the summer. It was, to reuse the infamous phrase coined by Tony Blair’s communications manager Anji Hunter on 9/11, published on “a good day to bury bad news”.