Shatter under intense pressure to withdraw whistleblower claim

Minister for Justice Alan Shatter is facing Dail censure if he does not withdraw his claim that Garda whistleblowers had not cooperated with the garda investigation into penalty points.

He is also set to come under further pressure, as more documents alleging the mishandling of Garda investigations are supplied by Fianna Fail to Taoiseach Enda Kenny. And a report by the Garda Inspectorate, which is understood to contain more damning findings about the ...