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Minister used 'roadblock' law to send Garda disclosures back (opens the original)
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The former Justice Minister Helen McEntee cited a law meant exclusively for investigating Garda commissioners, one that imposes substantial roadblocks before an investigation can begin, to justify sending a key Garda whistleblower file back to the Gardaí to investigate. The then minister based her rationale for sending the file back on a 2015 amendment that sets four legislative roadblocks to clear before the then Garda ombudsman, GSOC could investigate allegations against commissioners. In corr
Garda whistleblower not told document was 'under investigation' (opens the original)
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Garda management questioned a senior civilian handler of whistleblower cases earlier this year about the authorship of a document she sent querying an investigation report into a controversial protected disclosure. Rose Sweeney learned in recent days that An Garda Síochána was publicly stating that the provenance of the document was "under investigation". Ms Sweeney told RTÉ Investigates that in her capacity as a statutory, protected disclosures manager in An Garda Síochána, in July 2024 she sen
Garda whistleblower unit members blow the whistle (opens the original)
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Two people who handled protected disclosures made by Garda whistleblowers have themselves blown the whistle, alleging that reforms introduced to protect those who speak out have been undermined by senior management. They are among four Garda whistleblowers speaking publicly for the first time in an RTÉ Investigates programme to be broadcast tonight at 9.35pm on RTÉ One. The other two whistleblowers made protected disclosures to the office in recent years. The Garda Protected Disclosures Office w
The Winchester: journey of a pump-action shotgun reveals failings (opens the original)
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On 10 June 2004, a legally held, 12-gauge, Winchester pump-action shotgun was reported stolen from a house in Co Galway. So began an extraordinary journey that took the gun from a locker in the back kitchen of a Co Galway home, to identified individuals in Co Wexford, and then in 2007 to a farmhouse in Co Kildare, where, in 2009, gardaí conducting a drugs raid seized it as an illegally-held sawn-off weapon. It then made its way to garda headquarters for forensic examination, before being brought
Whistleblowers say confidential gun file was interfered with (opens the original)
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A confidential Garda whistleblower file about a stolen Winchester pump-action shotgun that went missing from Garda custody and ended up in criminal hands a second time was marked for closure without the knowledge or consent of personnel handling it in the Garda Whistleblowers' Office. In an RTÉ Investigates documentary to be broadcast on Wednesday night, Rose Sweeney, a senior serving civilian staff member, who is a former protected disclosure manager of An Garda Síochána, said the file was mark
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