EX-COP TO PLEAD GUILTY OVER PULSE RAPS

A FORMER garda jailed in July for inciting strangers to rape a colleague is to plead guilty to the unauthorised disclosure of Garda PULSE personal data on 14 individuals.

- BY GORDON DEEGAN

At Ennis Circuit Court, Judge Francis Comerford said that Shane Flanagan, 39, with an address in Ennis, Co Clare, had indicated that he will plead guilty to the charges.

A trial will not now proceed.

Mr Flanagan, who resigned from the force in March, was brought from prison yesterday to be arraigned on the PULSE charges before the court.

But it could not proceed after no solicitor or barrister appeared on his behalf.