Morris Tribunal

That's an interesting distinction, all right.

Right, off the back of another RT Investigates expose during the week, from the Morris Tribunal to the latest revelations inside the Protective Disclosure Office, why has every attempt to reform on Goddess Yacana and break its apparent internal code of silence ultimately failed to protect those who speak out? Whistleblowers.

Those dealing with whistleblowers themselves having to become whistleblowers.

Christy Galligan surely has an insight into this as a former senior member of Angadashi Akana.

Your reaction to what you heard last night?

Well, I watched the programme and it confirmed my worst suspicions, I have to say, that the culture in Angar, the Sheer Corner, which we were guaranteed would have changed in the light of the Morris Tribunal in relation to Donegal and in relation to the Disclosures Tribunal in relation to Morris McCabe and other matters, that that culture has not changed and that fundamentally on Garda Síochána is engaged in a strategy on a number of fronts to attack the messenger rather than to listen to the message about wrongdoing in the force.

In a lengthy statement to RT, On Garda Síochána said they consider the area of protected disclosures to be of the utmost importance, that the protected disclosures can be raised directly within the organisation or through the dedicated reporting channel independently operated by Transparency Ireland and they say that all allegations made to the disclosures under protected disclosures are taken seriously.

What do you want to happen as a result of what we heard last night?

Was there ever a moment where you genuinely feared for your own personal safety or realised you were being watched?

Well, certainly there were dozens of Gardaí and Donegal implicated in what emerged as the scandal that led to the Morris Tribunal in 2002.

I went up there in 1999.

I met Frank McBearty Sr., whose son had been accused, along with his nephew, of killing a cattle dealer in October 1996. in what turned out to have been a hit-and-run accident in which his son, Frank McBearty Jr., and nephew, Mark McConnell, had absolutely nothing to do with.