Whistleblower - The Maurice McCabe Story

For the first time, and exclusively for RTÉ, Maurice and Lorraine McCabe will tell their personal story in a two-part TV documentary. Through candid interviews and extraordinary archive, these films will tell the story of this intensely private family who were catapulted into the limelight after Sergeant McCabe became the country’s most prominent Garda whistleblower. RTÉ reporter Katie Hannon will detail the events that saw Sergeant McCabe become isolated and ostracised within the police force for simply doing what he saw as the right thing. These films also show how Maurice McCabe subsequently came to be the victim of a whispering campaign that led to the establishment of a Tribunal of Inquiry, chaired by Mr Justice Peter Charleton. The story of Maurice McCabe has rarely been out of the headlines. It has shaken the establishment and rippled through the highest echelons of Irish society from An Garda Siochana through the media and government. These documentaries will show these events through the eyes of the family at the very centre of it. The film features in-depth interviews with Maurice and Lorraine McCabe, as well as Maurice’s 91 year old father Michael and other family members.