The role of the confidential recipient is to be available to receive, in confidence, reports of corruption or malpractice within An Garda Síochána from Garda members or civilian employees.
Mick Wallace today in the Dáil read transcript of an alleged conversation between Garda whistleblower Maurice McCabe and the Garda Síochána confidential recipient
“I’ll tell you something, and this is just personal advice to you: If Shatter thinks you are screwing him, you are finished. If Shatter thinks: ‘Here’s this guy again, trying to put pressure, trying to go another route’, he’ll go after you.”
Oliver J. Connolly was appointed by Alan Shatter in 2011. Connolly or rather his company, Friary Law, trained Alan Shatter as a family law mediator and Connolly himself donated €1,000 to Shatter’s election campaign in 2007.