IRELAND
RTE News
The Garda Commissioner, Martin Callinan, has said no prosecution is to be taken against current or former gardaí who connived with the Catholic Church to protect the paedophile former priest, Patrick McCabe.
The Commissioner was responding to the Murphy Commission’s finding that a previous Commissioner had taken a personal interest in pursuing a blackmail complaint against McCabe’s first known victim and that the man’s phone was tapped.
In a statement tonight, the Commissioner told RTÉ News that following a Garda investigation into the force’s handling of the McCabe case, the DPP had decided that no prosecution was to be taken against current or former gardaí.
He said it is a matter of regret to him personally that people did not receive the appropriate attention and action from the Garda Síochána to which they were entitled.
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