The former President of the High Court, Mr Justice Frederick Morris, is to head the inquiry into allegations against certain Donegal gardaí.
The Donegal inquiry will not be the first difficult inquiry he has conducted. He was asked by the then Chief Justice, the late Mr Justice Liam Hamilton, to conduct the inquiry into the judicial aspects of the Sheedy affair. Last month, he was asked to carry out an inquiry into the care and services provided by the Eastern Regional Health Auth-ority to a disturbed teenage mother who was found dead.
One of his last major cases was the Beverly Cooper-Flynn libel trial, where at times he appeared to many of the journalists to be sympathetic to the plight of the plaintiff. However, following the jury finding against her, he awarded all the costs of the case against her.