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Why were Garda phone calls taped? YOU’RE KAVANAGH LAUGH: Writers Paula Meehan and Brendan Kennelly sit with Patrick Kavanagh at the launch of this year’s Dublin: One City One Book festival, with the chosen book being If Ever You Go: A Map Of Dublin In Poetry And Song PA
A STATE inquiry has been ordered into widespread phone tapping at Garda stations spanning three decades. Just hours after the Garda chief Martin Callinan quit his post, Taoiseach Enda Kenny said the revelations were potentially so grave a full statutory investigation was needed. Mr Kenny said he was extremely concerned after being told by the attorney general at the weekend of the recording of phone conversations at police stations from the 1980s until last November. But asked if he would tell Justice Minister Alan Shatter to resign over the unfolding crises, he replied: ‘No.’ The Government said in a statement: ‘In the context of ongoing legal proceedings in a particular case, the Government has learned that a system was in place in a large number of Garda stations whereby incoming and outgoing telephone calls were taped and recorded.’ Mr Kenny said the revelations could have consequences for court cases past and present.
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A report by force watchdog the Garda Ombudsman last year into three officers convicted of assaulting Waterford man Anthony Holness alleged phone calls in and out of the city’s Garda station were recorded. The Garda and Department of Justice have been ordered to report to the coalition on the sensational claims. Amidst the extraordinary developments, the Government said it would set up an independent Garda authority to supervise the force to bring it ‘into the modern era’. Proposals are to be made public after two separate ongoing inquiries into abuse of the penalty points system and alleged bugging of the force’s official watchdog, the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission. Mr Shatter is expected to come before the Dáil tomorrow to answer questions about the controversies.
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