Drew Harris acknowledged Pat Carey had suffered 'severe and wholly unjustified distress' after details of a Garda investigation leaked.
The Garda Commissioner has apologised to Pat Carey for the"severe and wholly unjustified distress" the former TD suffered after information in relation to a Garda investigation made its way into the public domain.
When the matter was mentioned before Ms Justice Siobhan Stack at the High Court on Friday, Remy Farrell SC, instructed by solicitor James MacGuill, said that the matter against all parties had been settled and the matter could be struck out. The Commissioner accepts that this should never have happened and acknowledges that this was the cause of severe and wholly unjustified distress to Mr Carey, and those close to him and damage to his reputation.
He claimed he was placed in a position of having to make a public statement dealing with allegations of which he had no knowledge and felt obliged to step aside from positions he held while any investigation was underway. When the matter was previously before the courts the defendants had admitted that the articles were published, but had denied all the claims made against them,
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