ComNoirin O'Sullivan
THE High Court has ordered Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan to end an internal investigation into a sergeant.
Senior gardai have denied pressurising the sergeant's girlfriend into making a complaint against him.
Judge Paul McDermott granted the order last Tuesday to Keith Harrison, a Donegal-based sergeant who is on unpaid sick leave, today's Sunday Times report says.
Lawyers for the state conceded that there had been inordinate and inexcusable delay in progressing the investigation, the paper reports.
The state was ordered to pay the legal costs of both sides in the proceedings.
Despite objections by the state’s lawyers, Judge McDermott, who was a senior counsel for the Morris tribunal which investigated alleged garda misconduct in Donegal in the 1990s, said Harrison’s full costs were justified given the “obvious complex issues before the court”.
Harrison tells the paper today that he is "relieved" the case is over.