The Government is to consider how it can distance the State from the report of the tribunal into the Kerry babies case. Ms Hayes denied killing her baby, and forensic evidence did not support the damning verdict of the tribunal’s chairman, Mr Justice Kevin Lynch.. Despite these apologies the report of the tribunal remains the official record of the case, and what it says about the Hayes family remains the official position of the State. “Government does not have the power to interfere with a tribunal in that way.”Mr Flanagan said one option might be for the Cabinet to resile, or abandon, the judge’s findings. Two of three senior gardaí involved in interrogating Ms Hayes, her two brothers, her mother and her aunt are dead.

Source: The Irish Times January 22, 2018 02:15 UTC