A 29-year-old man died six days after hitting his head on the ground after receiving a punch from his girlfriend’s brother, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has heard.

A former neighbour of key Morris garda corruption tribunal witness Adrienne McGlinchey recalled today how he obtained bullets, cartridges and a bag of fertiliser for her.

A former detective today told the Morris Tribunal into Garda corruption that he destroyed documents – some relating to cases being probed by the inquiry - two years after retiring from the force.

A former detective today told the Morris Tribunal into Garda corruption how he was asked by a central figure in the probe to take responsibility for a non-existent file on an explosives find.

Two former detectives today told the Morris Tribunal into Garda corruption of their doubts over the veracity of information relayed to the force in Co Donegal by alleged IRA insider Adrienne McGlinchey during the 1990s.

The main witness in the current phase of the Morris Tribunal has revealed that a statement she gave to the Court of Criminal Appeal last year was factually incorrect.

KEY Morris Tribunal witness Sheenagh McMahon faced a grilling yesterday from lawyers after she alleged that garda officers let the IRA bomb a Northern Ireland town.

A VITAL witness at the Morris Tribunal into garda corruption yesterday said she felt her life had been a lie when she realised a series of claimed successful garda strikes against terrorism had been bogus.

The gardai allowed the IRA to plant a bomb which exploded in the Northern Ireland town of Strabane, Co Tyrone in the early 1990s, Morris Tribunal witness Sheenagh McMahon today claimed.