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10/10/2012
Smithwick Tribunal Expected To Seek Further Extension
The Smithwick Tribunal is expected to seek a third extension of time after it emerged that one of its key witnesses is awaiting a heart bypass operation.
Consultant cardiologist Niamh Murphy told the Tribunal today that Owen Corrigan - one of the three former gardaí being investigated by the Tribunal to see if they colluded with the IRA - is unfit to give evidence at present.
Adding that he will not be in a position to do so for a further five to six months.
The Tribunal had been set up in 2005 to investigate claims that gardaí were involved in passing information to the IRA which led to the murders of Chief Supt Harry Breen and Supt Bob Buchanan in March 1989.
The Tribunal began gathering information in private in 2006 and has been hearing evidence in public since May 2011.
It had been due to complete its work by November of that year but was given an extension of time to early 2012.
Then in May the Tribunal sought another extension to November, which was approved by the Minister for Justice Alan Shatter following a brief spat with Judge Smithwick.
Now the Tribunal is expected to write to the Clerk of the Dáil to seek another extension, possibly to late spring or early summer of next year.
(H/GK)
Consultant cardiologist Niamh Murphy told the Tribunal today that Owen Corrigan - one of the three former gardaí being investigated by the Tribunal to see if they colluded with the IRA - is unfit to give evidence at present.
Adding that he will not be in a position to do so for a further five to six months.
The Tribunal had been set up in 2005 to investigate claims that gardaí were involved in passing information to the IRA which led to the murders of Chief Supt Harry Breen and Supt Bob Buchanan in March 1989.
The Tribunal began gathering information in private in 2006 and has been hearing evidence in public since May 2011.
It had been due to complete its work by November of that year but was given an extension of time to early 2012.
Then in May the Tribunal sought another extension to November, which was approved by the Minister for Justice Alan Shatter following a brief spat with Judge Smithwick.
Now the Tribunal is expected to write to the Clerk of the Dáil to seek another extension, possibly to late spring or early summer of next year.
(H/GK)
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