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.

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

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

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.

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

Two of the main towns in Co Donegal were prime locations for on-the-run IRA personnel during the height of the terrorist campaign during the 1980s and 1990s, the Morris Tribunal probe of Garda corruption allegations heard today.

A Donegal garda spoke today of his disbelief when a detective pointed a revolver to his head and released the hammer as though he was going to shoot.

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.

A witness at the Morris tribunal today revealed the deep debt of gratitude she owed a key figure in the inquiry.

A DETECTIVE at the centre of a probe into corruption in the gardaí yesterday succeeded in blocking a garda disciplinary inquiry into alleged misconduct four years ago.

A detective today told the Morris tribunal about unease in the force more than a decade ago over a high-ranking decision to free a woman detained in possession of walkie-talkie radio sets.

A Garda called to a suspected bomb factory find today admitted neither securing the scene or passing on the information to his local station chiefs.

Crucial Morris tribunal witness Adrienne McGlinchey today heard herself called a cunning and pathological liar and was accused of inventing much of her evidence.

A key Morris Tribunal witness today told of how two gardai pretended to interrogate her after a steel rocket was found hidden behind a panel under her bath.

Key Morris Tribunal witness Sheenagh McMahon today insisted a statement she made retracting allegations of Garda corruption had been the result of “coercion and pressure”.

AN extraordinary tale involving allegations that two gardaí were involved in the death of cattle dealer Richie Barron emerged at the Morris Tribunal yesterday.

PEOPLE have lied in relation to virtually every paragraph of the terms of reference of the Garda corruption tribunal, lead counsel Peter Charleton said yesterday.

A SERIES of apparent coups by Donegal gardaí in their fight against subversives prompted diplomatic praise all the way from London.

A garda superintendent was one of two officers declared by a court today to have deliberately concealed and invented evidence to secure a drugs conviction against an innocent nightclub owner.