Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The email in question was sent to an official at the Department of Justice and Equality from somebody within An Garda Síochána. That email was then sent on to the Tánaiste. It strikes me as very strange that this email and the telephone conversation happened at all. It is very strange that the people concerned would be sharing information on a legal strategy and then sharing it with the Tánaiste who, after all, had no hand, act or part in the formulation of that strategy. The email clearly showed a deliberate plan to smear Maurice McCabe in the worst possible way. The criminal complaints being used had been already disproved. The Tánaiste knew this and yet she did nothing. Why did the Tánaiste do nothing?

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