The former head of the Garda Press Office has told the Disclosures Tribunal that he was ordered by the then Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan in 2013 to take every opportunity to tell journalists that Garda whistleblower Sgt Maurice McCabe was motivated by “revenge”. It was reflecting badly on An Garda Síochána,” and badly on Mr Callinan. No journalists were named in the disclosure as having been briefed negatively in relation to Sgt McCabe. At the time he made his protected disclosure, Supt Taylor was suspended and the focus of a criminal inquiry for leaking information to journalists after he had left the Garda Press Office. Supt Taylor said he knew at the time that Sgt McCabe had made a protected disclosure.

Source: The Irish Times May 14, 2018 12:11 UTC