Author contacts Disclosures Tribunal over alleged Garda smear campaign

Colum Kenny, an emeritus professor at Dublin City University, has previously expressed concern publicly that journalists are raising the shield of privilege inappropriately in relation to the tribunal's work

Former Sunday Independent columnist Colum Kenny

The author and former Sunday Independent columnist Colum Kenny is the latest media figure known to have contacted the Disclosures Tribunal over the alleged Garda smear campaign against whistleblower Maurice McCabe.

Kenny, an emeritus professor at Dublin City University, has previously expressed concern publicly that journalists are raising the shield of privilege inappropriately in relation to the tribunal's work.

While it is known Kenny has written to the tribunal, it is not clear ...