A former head of the Garda Press Office sent “hundreds” of text messages to senior officers and journalists as part of a smear campaign against Sgt Maurice McCabe, the Charleton tribunal has been told. The tribunal was established to examine whether Garda HQ conducted a smear campaign against Sgt McCabe because of his whistleblowing activities. Sgt McCabe said that he was told that Supt Taylor had confessed to a “spiritual adviser” and that he had been told to tell Sgt McCabe what he had been doing. Sgt McCabe said he was told Mr Callinan wrote all the texts which Supt Taylor sent out. He said he went back to Supt Taylor the next day and asked if it could really have been hundreds of text.

Source: The Irish Times March 05, 2018 17:04 UTC