Ardara, on the edge of Donegal’s western seaboard, became another town blackened by allegations of garda corruption after an arson attack on a telecommunications mast and an explosive was planted at it in November 1996.

Gardaí believed an explosive device planted at a telecoms mast in Co Donegal may have been made from fireworks stored at a Donegal garda station, a retired garda revealed today.

A witness who failed to appear before the Morris Tribunal was today warned it was in his own interest to give evidence over an arson attack at the site of a telephone mast in Donegal.

A Donegal man refused to co-operate with the Morris Tribunal today claiming the investigation was making scapegoats out of a number of gardaí.

A ROW over the site of a telecom mast led to bitter protests, an arson attack, the planting of an explosive device and the arrest of three people, a court has heard.