Martin Callinan disputes evidence at Charleton tribunal

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Martin Callinan disputed evidence about alleged efforts to discredit Maurice McCabe at the Charleton tribunal in Dublin Castle on 21 May 2018. The former Garda commissioner said John Deasy, Seamus McCarthy and John McGuinness gave incorrect accounts of conversations in January 2014.

Callinan denied making derogatory comments about McCabe or telling McGuinness that McCabe had sexually abused family members. He said he had referred to a 2006 allegation, for which the Director of Public Prosecutions had directed no charges, and that he was continuing to give evidence.