The Garda investigation into the death of a schoolboy in the Offaly bus crash was hampered by a lack of proper equipment, it was claimed today.

A STATE witness to alleged after-hours drinking in a Donegal nightclub was called “a State w**ker” outside court by family members of the venue’s owners, the Morris Tribunal heard yesterday.

Evidence of a number of blood stains found at the home of a man accused of stabbing another man to death was heard today at the Central Criminal Court.