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SINN FÉIN TD Martin Kenny has criticised Minister for Justice Frances Fitzgerald for taking six months to acknowledge a protected disclosure he made about alleged serious garda malpractice.
In November 2016, Kenny made his protected disclosure to Frances Fitzgerald, outlining claims he had made earlier in the year. Speaking in the Dáil last May, he made serious allegations about wrongdoing in his constituency.
He claimed gardaí had, over the course of a nine-year period:
Kenny said he had been given this information by garda whistleblowers and alleged informants.
He claimed at the time that a garda informant told him that he was asked by named gardaí to carry out a burglary at his own home.
Kenny told TheJournal.ie that he only this week received an acknowledgement of his protected disclosure and said this was “absurd”.
Fitzgerald’s letter, dated 16 May, says the “delay in responding is regretted”.
She noted correspondence in November from the Sinn Féin TD under Protected Disclosures legislation. Though the minister said she does not believe his letter constituted a protected disclosure, she described the allegations as “clearly very serious”.
Fitzgerald has now requested a report from the Garda Commissioner in relation to the claims. Martin questioned how seriously his allegations were being taken considering the six-month delay in even acknowledging them.
“I don’t know what it says. You think they’ll be looking at them seriously. After the speech I made [in May], two senior gardaí came to meet me and I gave them everything, told them who they needed to speak to. I’ve never heard from them since,” he said.
“This was last year in May or early June. It was an exercise to absorb what I knew. I was very annoyed with them, but I was more annoyed at myself for believing them”.
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Didn’t get far into the article before I got the general gist. Doxxing is perfectly acceptable to one side and not the other…guess which side.
@Briscoe Sundara: It is inconceivable that whoever wrote that dross cannot see how bad it is. There’s a paragraph there near the start that try’s to justify Far Left Vs Far Right Doxxing….. Ultimately it says……..
Far Left Doxxing….. Gooooood, because they’re harassing people on the far right….!!!
Far Right Doxxing….. Baaad… because they’re harassing people on the far left….!!!
Can we not all agree…. that you’ll all nuts…. The Nazi’s\racists on the far right and the loons on the far left like the author.
You would need a Pint after reading that carry on.
@Gerard: well this is awkward, didn’t really take long to find one Irish account. https://mobile.twitter.com/antifa_drone
@An Breasláin Nua: where, specifically, are the people on the left approving of doxxing in any significant number?
On the other hand, the far right approval is right here…
My comment linking an example of an Irish far left account openly doxxing people on Twitter was removed… The bias here is very concerning.
I think the cut and paste nature of right wing politics from the UK is the main reason it remains on the fringes here. It is extremely sympathetic to imperialism and loyalism, a deal breaker as this is at odds with the views of the vast majority of Irish people who would otherwise agree with others elements e.g. anti abortion.
“the far-right in Ireland is effectively a “copy and paste” groups in the US and Europe. ”
Very well described! It’s so pathetic how many of them don’t even understand the very basics of Irish politics.
One of their favourite mantras when they found themselves with a brown taoiseach was to claim he was “unelected” because they could only equate leadership with american style presidential contests.
The liberal consensus is creating opposition which it has labelled ‘Far – Right’.
The leaders might be opportunists looking for a cause and they are finding support from men who are reacting to being vilified, shouted down and discriminated against.
However the ‘liberal consensus is also well populated by opportunists and as they say “it takes one to know one”.
There is an economic concept, called the law of diminishing returns in play here. When you have got more than you ever asked for don’t start coming up with new “asks” and historical grievances as supporting facts.
The Catholic Church might have been a focal point for earlier generations but it doesn’t have the moral authority that it used to.
This was meant to be a response to Ned Gerblansky’s post above.
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