Point-scoring is obscuring the real issues in the Shatter row - Political News | Irish & International Politics | The Irish Times - Sun, Feb 23, 2014

Point-scoring is obscuring the real issues in the Shatter row - Political News | Irish & International Politics | The Irish Times - Sun, Feb 23, 2014: There are inevitable suspicions that the Garda and the department behaved in a manner similar to Catholic Church authorities when the initial claims of sexual abuse surfaced. It will be difficult to convince people that the desire to avoid a scandal that could damage vital institutions of the State did not take precedence over the requirement to get to the truth.?