The key steps to restoring confidence in policing

The statement last week by the former Garda confidential whistleblower Oliver Connolly was extraordinary, and has added another twist to the tangled affairs of recent weeks involving the gardai, the whistleblower and the justice minister.

Mr Connolly was sacked by justice minister Alan Shatter after Garda whistleblower Maurice McCabe released a transcript of a conversation between Connolly and McCabe. In the conversation, Connolly warned McCabe not to leak any of his allegations to ...