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Friday 23 October 2020
The findings of the investigative report, compiled by Mark Connaughton SC, were inconclusive.
The former Minister for Justice has blasted the Guerin report for ‘completely failing to follow fair procedure’.
What else will the folks on Kildare Street be discussing?
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.
Advocates and survivors of mother and baby homes have been outraged at the government’s handling of legislation passed in the Dáil last night.
“As you look back now, there is still an ‘outstanding anomaly’ in the words of the judge,” Simon O’Brien said this morning.
Good morning! Here are the nine biggest stories you need to know this morning as you kick off your day.
An Garda Síochána acknowledged that their working relationship with GSOC needs to be more constructive.
Four months on, and we’ve lost a Minister and a Commissioner – and now the inquiry is more futile than most.
The government has published retired High Court Judge John Cooke’s report into the claims of surveillance at the Ombudsman’s office.
Were the Ombudsman’s offices bugged or not?
The Minister for Justice was speaking after the publication of the report into allegations that the offices of the Garda Ombudsman were bugged.
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…
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”.
US PRESIDENT DONALD Trump and former vice president Joe Biden took part in another debate last night, the final head-to-head before voting on 3 November.
The previous debate was fractious and almost unwatchable as the pair shouted over each other, but last night was more measured by comparison.
Trump denied being racist, saying no US president since Abraham Lincoln has “done what I’ve done for the black community”. Biden then said Trump “pours fuel on every single racist fire” and claimed he “has a dog whistle about as big as a fog horn”.
You can catch up on the main points here.
Did you stay up to watch the debate, or catch highlights this morning?
If you did, we want to know: Who won last night’s US election debate?
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