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The Knights of the Campanile are at the centre of a bugging controversy.
The award was made in the Circuit Civil Court for personal injuries.
The Sunday Independent’s Niall O’Connor exclusively reported yesterday that a politician’s election activist had their phone bugged.
A tragedy in Cork, snow across the country and a big win for Ireland had everyone talking today.
Simon O’Brien is taking up a new post in the UK next month after a turbulent spell as GSOC chair.
The new Bill gives greater powers to GSOC.
The GSOC report was unable to confirm the source of the ‘bugging’ leak.
The findings of the investigative report, compiled by Mark Connaughton SC, were inconclusive.
The Sunday Times journalist declined an invitation to cooperate with the inquiry.
The company said that it was never part of its remit to uncover the source of any possible surveillance threat.
The former Minister for Justice said that retired Judge Cooke’s dealing with the matters in the report was in the public interest.
The justice minister said that at least seven people had access to the information that was leaked to the media.
“As you look back now, there is still an ‘outstanding anomaly’ in the words of the judge,” Simon O’Brien said this morning.
An Garda Síochána acknowledged that their working relationship with GSOC needs to be more constructive.
The government has published retired High Court Judge John Cooke’s report into the claims of surveillance at the Ombudsman’s office.
The Minister for Justice was speaking after the publication of the report into allegations that the offices of the Garda Ombudsman were bugged.
It is unknown when the report in to the bugging of GSOC headquarters will be published.
The Cooke report was commissioned in February following reports of “unlawful surveillance”.
The Taoiseach is not likely to see the report until Monday as he is currently on a trade mission in California.
During leaders’ questions, Micheál Martin accused Kenny of ‘sacking’ Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan.
Enda Kenny has quoted Einstein and Lincoln in a keynote speech to the Fine Gael Ard Fheis in Dublin tonight.
… US spy agencies would continue to “gather information about the intentions of governments”.
Everyone’s talking about why Alan Shatter sacked the confidential recipient, a car chase in Ranelagh and what happens next for Ukraine.
TheJournal.ie explores the background to the current controversy surrounding the Justice Minister, the questions that remain and what’s likely to happen next.
The call was made at a press conference in Dublin today.
Some were more forthcoming than others…
The Sinn Féin president said the man took issue with comments he made in a radio interview linking bugging at the GSOC offices to the ombudsman’s inquiry into garda collusion with Boylan.
The Justice Minister is facing questions over the ongoing controversy surrounding the Garda Ombudsman.
Sinn Féin have called for an independent review into the controversy.
Everyone’s talking about top-ups, GSOC surveillance claims and an alleged sexual assault on a child.
It comes as Sinn Féin prepares to table a motion calling for the establishment of an independent inquiry into claims that the Garda Ombudman’s headquarters was placed under surveillance.
Shatter said that he has received more information on the accessing of the wifi at the GSOC offices.
Claims from Charlie Flanagan that Sinn Féin has undermined the work of a committee chaired by one of its own TDs have drawn sharp criticism today.
The article has been described by the company at the centre of the row as “wholly inaccurate”, but Williams says he stands over it.
Verrimus, which carried out the security sweep of GSOC, has dismissed suggestions made in the Irish Independent today about the source of the anomalies.
Reports today said that Verrimus had tried to sell the type of equipment found at GSOC offices to gardaí, but they say that can’t sell that type of equipment.
The Irish Council of Civil Liberties says an inquiry is needed to “staunch the erosion of public trust”.