ADRIENNE McGlinchey was not a willing participant in the transportation and planting of ammunition and fake explosives, her family claimed yesterday.

An Oireachtas committee should be set up to monitor the Gardaí and ensure the recommendations laid out in the hard-hitting Morris Report are followed, it was claimed tonight.

A second senior garda criticised for his role in Donegal in the early 1990s by the hard-hitting Morris report has handed in his resignation, it emerged today.

ONE of the key garda figures in the Morris Tribunal into garda corruption is to retire from the force.

SHEENAGH McMAHON, the whistleblowing former wife of a disgraced detective facing the sack from the force, has revealed the full extent of the intimidation and bullying she suffered after first making a statement against him and a colleague.

GARDA Commissioner Noel Conroy headed the force’s Crime and Security branch at a time when it was negligent in failing to ask questions about a trip to the United States by two central figures investigated by the Morris Tribunal.

A senior garda in Co Donegal is retiring from his post in the aftermath of the publication of the report from the Morris Tribunal into Garda corruption.

IT began with a broken marriage and ended yesterday with two gardaí labelled corrupt liars and 17 others branded grossly negligent or obstructive.

Political Correspondent Fionnán Sheahan reports on the Morris Tribunal’s findings that Supt Kevin Lennon and Det Garda Noel McMahon planted ammunition and hoax explosives to advance their careers.

THIS entire set of circumstances started with a mischievous young woman anxious to portray herself as an informer, says Mr Justice Frederick Morris.

A GARDA working group is to be set up to examine the recommendations made in the first Morris Tribunal Report.

The future of the marathon inquiry into allegations of Garda corruption in Co Donegal was in doubt tonight in a major new row over legal aid.

Alleged IRA informer and key Morris Tribunal witness Adrienne McGlinchey is capable of lying about anything and to anybody, the garda corruption probe heard today.

NOEL McMAHON adopted a sinister approach to his estranged wife after she made a statement listing allegations against the detective, the Morris Tribunal was told yesterday.

GARDA evidence to the Morris Tribunal has often been close to farcical, the on-going corruption claims probe was told yesterday.

Concerns within the Garda Representative Association over evidence given by senior officers to the Morris Tribunal were spelled out today.

GARDAI were powerless to take action against hardened IRA terrorists living openly in Co Donegal while their campaign of violence was at its height, the Morris Tribunal was told yesterday.

ALLEGED informer Adrienne McGlinchey would probably have been killed by the IRA if she had relayed to gardaí intelligence of the sort claimed during the Morris Tribunal, the inquiry heard yesterday.

GARDA Noel McMahon yesterday rejected claims that he prepared explosives for bogus arms finds in a bid to advance his career.

Garda Noel McMahon today again rejected claims that he prepared explosives for bogus arms finds in a bid to advance his career.

Garda Noel McMahon today dismissed as nonsense an alleged informer’s claim that he set up the discovery of potential bomb-making equipment in order to impress an officer appointed to oversee his work.

GARDA detective Noel McMahon yesterday denied trying to undermine the credibility of his estranged wife in his evidence to the Morris Tribunal.

A detective today said he would not have blamed Letterkenny woman Adrienne McGlinchey if she had pulled out from her role as an alleged IRA informer if the gardaí had persisted with an arms search near her family’s home.

AMMUNITION and other terrorist material was often dumped by alleged IRA informer Adrienne McGlinchey when she feared she could be caught by security forces, the Morris Tribunal heard yesterday.

A FRIENDSHIP between the alleged police informer, Adrienne McGlinchey, and a niece of the leading IRA figure, Pearse McAuley, played no part in a senior detective's assessment of Ms McGlinchey as a source in relation to terrorist activities, the Morris Tribunal was told yesterday.

A friendship between alleged informer Adrienne McGlinchey and a niece of top IRA figure Pearse McAuley played no part in a senior detective’s assessment of her as a source about terrorist activities, the Morris Tribunal was told today.

Alleged informer Adrienne McGlinchey took bullets across the border in order to get the Royal Ulster Constabulary involved in her case, the Morris Tribunal has heard.

ALLEGED IRA informer Adrienne McGlinchey was “coaxed and cajoled” into making wild and untrue allegations about a senior garda officer at the centre of corruption claims in Co Donegal, the Morris Tribunal heard yesterday.

Alleged IRA informer Adrienne McGlinchey was coaxed and cajoled into making wild and untrue allegations against a senior Garda officer now at the centre of Garda corruption claims in Co Donegal, the Morris Tribunal heard today.

DETECTIVE Superintendent Kevin Lennon told the Morris Tribunal yesterday he took no action against alleged informer Adrienne McGlinchey when she took a lunchbox packed with bullets across the border for the IRA because she was helping gardaí.

A SENIOR detective yesterday told the Morris Tribunal he was appointed to oversee the handling of Adrienne McGlinchey after a fellow officer said she and other gardaí could be in danger as her identity as an alleged informer had become too widely known.

A senior detective today told the Morris Tribunal that claims he helped stage bogus IRA arms finds and had extra marital affairs were “reprehensible”.

A SENIOR garda, who, along with another officer allegedly helped stage bogus IRA arms finds, yesterday angrily rejected suggestions he had taken bribes or had an extra-marital affair.

ALLEGED informer Adrienne McGlinchey flew to the United States on the premise of collecting documents relating to a weapon but returned empty-handed, the Morris Tribunal heard yesterday.

Senior gardaí cleared the way for Adrienne McGlinchey to leave 60 kilos of home-made explosives, intended for an IRA attack on a RUC base, close the border without being challenged or arrested, the Morris Tribunal today heard.

Alleged informer Adrienne McGlinchey claimed her garda handler blackmailed her into posing as an IRA mole as an act of revenge when his wife blew her cover, the Morris Tribunal today heard.

The Morris Tribunal probe into garda corruption allegations went into private session today ahead of the opening of the second day of evidence from key witness Detective Garda Noel McMahon.

A VETERAN detective and key figure at the Morris Tribunal probe of garda corruption yesterday denied being involved in any hoax finds of explosives or bomb-making equipment in Co Donegal during the 1990s.

A Letterkenny man told the Morris Tribunal into Co Donegal garda corruption allegations today how he was asked to hide two walkie-talkie radios and a charger in a stable 12 years ago.

Alleged 1990s IRA informer Adrienne McGlinchey was recalled by a senior garda officer today as “immature and giddy, but “someone you should keep your eye on”.

A senior garda said today the concept of tacit toleration towards the IRA in Co Donegal during the 1990s was “an appalling scenario“.

A senior garda officer today recalled the “theatricals” of alleged IRA informer Adrienne McGlinchey in Co Donegal during the 1990s.

A former top garda was quizzed at length today about the procedure he followed after being told of a potential IRA attack on a British Army border-side security checkpoint nearly a decade ago.