ISBN: 1-85607-908-2
Price: €16.99
Published: May 2006
Size: 215 x 135mm

The 'retirement' of Lt. Dónal de Róiste first came to public attention in 1997 when it was used to damage the Presidential campaign of his youngest sister, Adi Roche.

On 27 June 1969 Dónal de Róiste was 'retired' from this Irish defence forces 'in the interests of the service'. He has consistently claimed that he was never given a reason fo this 'retirement' and was never allowed to face his accusers. Six weeks before his 'retirement' he was interrogated over several days during which, he claims, he was harassed and threatened.

Don Mullan explores the hypothesis that Dónal de Róiste was framed because he unwittingly held within his grasp the power to destroy the career of a senior officer on whose behalf he was not prepared to lie. De Róiste was one of the three passengers travelling with Comdt. Seán T. Kelly on 17 November 1967 when O'Kelly crashed into an oncoming car, seriously injuring a young woman. De Róiste maintains that O'Kelly was drunk at the time of the collision.

A two-page Irish Times - article by Don Mullan in June 2002 exploring his hypothesis resulted in the Minister for Defence requesting the Judge Advocate General, Ms Oonah McCrann, to examine De Róiste's case. McCrann accepted a decision by the Minister not to give De Róiste or his legal team access to his files until after she had carried out her inquiry. Her report was quashed by order of the High Court in July 2005 on the grounds of unfair procedures.

In Speaking Truth to Power, a leading investigative journalist provides a disturbing insight into one of the state's most hallowed institutions. Analysing secret military documents - never before made public - Don Mullan meticulously reconstructs the events leading to Lt. Dónal de Róiste 1969 'retirement' by President de Valera. By painstaking analysis of the documents, he compellingly argues that senior officers, at the highest level of the Irish defence forces, fabricated evidence in order to secure the explusion of a promising young officer ' in the interests of the service'.

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