Garda whistleblower Maurice McCabe has settled his legal action against the State and Tusla for an undisclosed sum. The settlement came after weeks of negotiations between the legal teams for Mr McCabe and the State agencies over the 11 separate actions brought by the former garda sergeant and his family. Mr McCabe’s woes began in 2008 after he had compiled a dossier illustrating how up to a dozen investigations of mainly serious crime had been mishandled. Later, he exposed the abuse in An Garda Siochana of the penalty points system in road policing. In both instances of complaint, initial internal inquiries by the gardaí provided a picture that was at great variance with Mr McCabe’s complaints but in both cases external inquiries later vindicated his complaints.

Source: Irish Examiner April 30, 2019 16:07 UTC