Junior Minister Michael D’Arcy has said Kevin Lunney and other Quinn chiefs have been “let down” by local gardai, not the Government.to a lack of Garda resources.
The main suspect, who is believed to have orchestrated the abduction, died on Friday during a police raid in the UK. He told RTE’s The Week In Politics on Sunday: “The disappointment wasn’t from the very top, from Commissioner Drew Harris, it wasn’t from the Taoiseach, it wasn’t from the Minister for Justice.“What happened was an outrage, it was hideous the treatment of Kevin Lunney and it should have been dealt with sooner and better at that level, but on every occasion, the Taoiseach shouldn’t have“The issue with tackling high-level criminality in the region is not a matter of resources.