A retired Garda sergeant who claimed a group of senior Garda officers conspired against him and made efforts to discredit or target him has not had his allegations upheld. The Disclosures Tribunal has found none of the officers named, across a number of different complaints and protected disclosures, had targeted former Garda sergeant Paul Barry in any way.
He had alleged efforts to transfer him to another station represented targeting as did, he claimed, the refusal to grant his applications for annual leave at times. He further alleged two senior officers had conspired so that one of them, with whom Mr Barry had especially poor relations, would be present and on duty on the same day at the Irish Open golf championship at Fota Island, Cork, in 2014.
Last May the tribunal was told Mr Barry was being targeted, harassed, isolated and discredited by his superiors by October 2012, when he made a bullying complaint and then made protected disclosures while he was working at Mitchelstown station, Co Cork.
Mr Barry was attested as a garda in October 1986 and was stationed at Rathmines Garda station for 14 years. He was promoted to the rank of sergeant in December 1999 and went on to serve in Mitchelstown for 16 years until his retirement in June 2016.
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