Nicholas Keogh tells tribunal heroin admission was delayed

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Nicholas Keogh told the Disclosures Tribunal that an admission by an alleged heroin dealer was delayed. The proceedings were reported on 6 November 2019.

Keogh said the statement, made in March 2018, was not passed to a detective inspector for five months. The tribunal was investigating whether he had been targeted, harassed, undermined or bullied after making a protected disclosure.

Counsel for An Garda Síochána said Assistant Commissioner Ann Marie McMahon’s disciplinary investigation was not a criminal investigation. He said a separate bullying and harassment investigation by Assistant Commissioner Michael Finn found no evidence of undermining, bullying or harassment. Keogh disputed the accounts while giving evidence under cross-examination.