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She was dragging it out. "I know that you probably would have seen a good bit of that material as well. Umm, I've had the benefit, I suppose, of having seen the material unredacted." What had she seen? "Umm… Now, from what I have looked at so far, I haven't been… I haven't seen any evidence of wrongdoing." How hard had she looked? "Umm, but the question is," she said, "where do we go from here?" The Department of Agriculture and Food said it expected to close its files on the €165,000 Cooley peninsula ewe premium fraud uncovered during the foot-and-mouth crisis by the end of the month. ...

'John Doe' stood on the terrace pulling on a cigarette and stiffening with the cold. November is not the darkest month but it felt like the darkest hour. There was Covid, obviously, and the general despondency of the second lockdown, but it was his job and what they had done to him that was tossing and turning him at night.

"What is your occupation?" "Farmer, director of Glanbia PLC and Co-op, director of GIL (Glanbia Ingredients Ireland), director of Carmac Construction Ltd." "What kind of farming are you involved in?" "Dairy and pigs." "Approximately 25 years." "Approximately three years." "4010481." "To Glanbia under the name of William Carroll and partners." "What is the name of the quota holder in Glanbia?" "It's in the partnership's name. It's partnership number 10, I think." (William Carroll left the room to check a detail re the above question. On his return at 5.02pm, I readministered the caution.) "Was...

'John Doe' took a last drag from his cigarette, stubbed the butt into a tray and stepped from the terrace to the laptop on his desk. It was a balmy summer's evening in August 2017 and he had spent months thinking about his job at the Department of Agriculture and the right thing to do about some very inconvenient truths. Now he was doing it: "Dear Minister, pursuant to the Protected Disclosures Act 2014, I wish to make the following Protected Disclosures..."