[g] To investigate whether Commissioner O’Sullivan, using briefing material
prepared in Garda Headquarters, planned and orchestrated broadcasts on RTE on
the 9th of May 2016, purporting to be a leaked account of the unpublished O’Higgins
Commission Report, in which Sgt McCabe was branded a liar and irresponsible.
And Reynolds was being briefed against McCabe long before that.
It was obvious from the tone of his reports over the past couple of years that he was out to cast doubts on the credibility of Maurice McCabe.
McCabe has just brought down the government there I think. The state attempted to use the false sexual allegations to discredit him in the enquiry, no way anyone can deny it went right to the top now
State attacked McCabe during O’Higgins commission and attempted to discredit him by introducing the false allegations. Even though at this stage they were known to be false. Anyone who read the transcripts of the O’Higgins Commission will have known this. Presumably Francis read or should have read same.
Basically said he doesn’t want a commission of inquiry, he wants a public one. He also said that the solicitors for the AGS tried to introduce the Tusla allegations into the O’Higgins investigation.