Gardaí singing the blues

Lifting the lid on its Pandora’s box has left the Garda Síochána with a scandal that just won’t go away

It all kicked off with two large storage boxes. A small fraction of their contents had been known before, and had sporadically stirred some sense of public unease about how the Garda was conducting its business. Now the black and white evidence was contained in thousands of pages, sealed in two boxes, sitting in front of 13 members of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC). What lay within, once prised open, would unleash a ...