A Dublin man who engaged armed gardaí in a stand-off in the hope that the officers would shoot him dead has been jailed for three years.

SUSPENDED garda John White planted a shotgun at a Travellers’ site in Donegal and then invented a conspiracy theory that garda bosses were out to frame him, the Morris Tribunal concluded.

A detective garda was unaware of any agreement between officers to ensure a woman was broken down during an interview in a Donegal garda station, the Morris Tribunal heard today.