THE Morris tribunal yesterday cleared the names of two senior gardaí — one retired — assistant commissioner Kevin Carty and former assistant commissioner Tony Hickey.

A massive Garda corruption inquiry was tonight wound up with a stinging attack on the two senior politicians key to its being set up.

The Anonymous Allegations, as they became known, accused then Assistant Commissioner Kevin Carty – who headed the internal probe into corruption in Donegal – and his former colleague, retired Assistant Commissioner Tony Hickey, of corruption.

The former chair of the Garda Complaints Board today said he regretted not being able to fully investigate claims of corruption and harassment among members in Donegal.

A Donegal publican made a plea for help to one of the country’s garda chiefs after his family was allegedly harassed and intimidated by officers in the county, it emerged today.

The former top garda in Donegal today said he supported the adjournment of dozens of District Court summonses against a publican over credibility issues with prosecuting gardaí.

Journalist Frank Connolly today revealed he was aware former Taoiseach John Bruton pressured Fine Gael colleagues not to help a Donegal family’s battle against garda corruption.

A journalist knew of serious allegations of corruption and blackmail in an internal garda inquiry before they were put to a Minister for Justice, it emerged today.

A senior garda today denied he ordered the transfer of a suspended colleague from Donegal to Dublin.

A private investigator today denied being the author of a shocking tip-off implicating the top brass of An Garda Síochana in corruption and dirty policing.

One of the highest ranking officers in the Garda today launched an extraordinary attack on two of the country’s most senior opposition politicians over claims he was involved in criminality.

One of the highest ranking officers in the Garda today made an extraordinary attack on two of the country’s most senior opposition politicians.

A barrister today insisted he never misled the Labour Party’s Brendan Howlin over allegations of top-level Garda corruption that led to the Morris Tribunal.

A LABOUR TD yesterday said he has no regrets that unsubstantiated allegations against a senior member of An Garda Síochána led to the setting up of the Morris Tribunal.

A Labour TD today said he has no regrets that unsubstantiated allegations against a senior member of An Garda Síochána led to the setting up of the Morris Tribunal.

An MEP forgot a former Taoiseach warned him to stop raising the issue of garda corruption in the Dáil until he spoke with a journalist, the Morris Tribunal was told today.

FORMER Taoiseach John Bruton ordered party colleague Jim Higgins to ease off on raising the issue of garda corruption in the Dáil, the Morris Tribunal was told yesterday.

Former Fine Gael leader John Bruton did call a party colleague telling him to ease off raising the issue of garda corruption in the Dáil, the Morris Tribunal was told today.

FORMER Fine Gael TD Jim Higgins, who championed the McBrearty family’s fight against garda corruption, was warned off the cause by former Taoiseach John Bruton, it was claimed yesterday.

GARDA Commissioner Noel Conroy has placed unsolved crimes as a major priority in his last year in charge of the force.

IT TOOK a considerable amount of nerve for a junior Donegal garda to report her suspicions that a superior had forged a signature on a murder confession, the Morris Tribunal heard yesterday.

A RETIRED senior garda yesterday denied intimidating and assaulting a murder suspect in Donegal.

A retired senior garda today denied intimidating and assaulting a murder suspect in Donegal.

Suspended Detective Sergeant John White tonight claimed the Morris Tribunal’s finding that he is corrupt is perverse and insisted his acquittal in court proved his innocence.

Suspended Detective Sergeant John White is corrupt and manipulative, Mr Justice Frederick Morris found, despite a judge and jury clearing him of criminal charges.

A suspended detective Garda sergeant, who is credited with thwarting a string of Real IRA terror attacks, was today cleared of planting a shotgun at a traveller encampment in Donegal in a bid to frame a group of men for murder.

A suspended Donegal garda detective claimed today his career had been ruined, his family life destroyed and that he had been shunned by the community over allegations he framed a publican.

A SUSPENDED garda at the centre of the Morris Tribunal’s investigations said yesterday he believed garda chiefs wanted to scapegoat him for garda corruption in Co Donegal in the 1990s.

A suspended garda at the centre of the Morris Tribunal’s current investigations today said he believed Garda chiefs wanted to ’scapegoat’ him for corruption in the force in Co Donegal in the 1990s.

THE opposition rounded on the Taoiseach yesterday as he took the last Leaders’ Questions session before the Dáil breaks for three months tomorrow.

The Taoiseach has come under further attack in the Dáil over the Carty Report into work practices of certain gardaí in Donegal.

OPPOSITION leaders will today grill the Taoiseach on why the Government took until May 2002 to establish a tribunal into garda corruption in Donegal when it had a report outlining the severity of the problem almost two years earlier.

In our editions of June 9 and June 10, 2005, we carried articles concerning the findings of the Morris Tribunal.

The Minister for Justice Michael McDowell must publish in full an internal garda probe into corruption in the Co Donegal division, it was claimed today.

GARDA Commissioner Noel Conroy yesterday described the garda investigation into the death of Richie Barron as “a cock-up”.

Minister for Justice Michael McDowell should offer a personal apology to the McBrearty family for failing to help them, it was claimed tonight.

A former Donegal garda plotted to blackmail the county’s most senior officer by secretly taping a conversation with him over the IRA’s torture of an informer, it emerged today.

A DISGRACED former garda superintendent warned senior officers that extortionate phone calls made from a colleague’s home would haunt the force, it was claimed yesterday.

Phone records could clear up allegations of gardaí holding a secret meeting following the death of a Donegal cattle dealer, the Morris Tribunal heard today.

Top detectives probing a botched murder investigation plotted to take scalps from junior ranks of the gardaí in Donegal, a former officer claimed today.

DISGRACED former Garda Superintendent Kevin Lennon told a tribunal into garda corruption yesterday he had stopped the exhumation of the body of cattle dealer Richie Barron at the request of his superior.

A man arrested in connection with the murder of a Raphoe cattle dealer was taken to a remote station to ensure senior gardai involved in the case could not “interfere” with him, it was claimed today.

A young Donegal woman today described the movements of her boyfriend’s car to the Morris Tribunal today on the night local cattle dealer Richie Barron was killed.