Garda management questioned a senior civilian handler of whistleblower cases earlier this year about the authorship of a document she sent querying an investigation report into a controversial protected disclosure.

Rose Sweeney learned in recent days that An Garda Síochána was publicly stating that the provenance of the document was "under investigation".

Ms Sweeney told RTÉ Investigates that in her capacity as a statutory, protected disclosures manager in An Garda Síochána, in July 2024 she sent a document of over 100 pages of queries back to the investigation into protected disclosures of a former Garda armourer.

She did not get a response and was later formally taken to task for sending the queries by former Commissioner Drew Harris.

In January and February this year, she was surprised to be called to meetings in Garda headquarters to answer questions about whether the document was written by someone outside the organisation.

The meetings came 18 months after she sent the document to a senior investigating officer she had commissioned to carry out the investigation and report back.

She was told that Mr Harris had asked for an examination of an issue, "to see if I had gone outside the organisation with a confidential report", and that a report on the issue would be sent to the current Commissioner, Justin Kelly.

She was invited to have a representative present and availed of the offer and was questioned by a senior executive about who helped her draft the document.

She...

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