A former senior garda officer sacked after being branded corrupt today compared the force to the military junta rulers brutally opposing democracy in Burma.

Eight rapes were reported within a seven-week period in one Donegal Garda district in the late 1990s, it emerged today.

Eight rapes were reported within a seven-week period in one Donegal garda district in the late 1990s, it emerged today.

The former top garda in Donegal today took responsibility for an unorthodox affidavit used to fight a bitter lawsuit against a publican who claimed harassment.

Members of an Oireachtas Justice Committee tonight defended the judiciary despite criticism from a late High Court judge that his former peers were influenced by the media and public opinion.

THE wife and children of Frank Shortt, the Donegal publican falsely jailed for drugs offences after being set up by gardaí, yesterday agreed a massive six-figure compensation settlement with the State.

The wife and children of Frank Shortt, the Donegal publican falsely jailed for drugs offences, today agreed a massive compensation settlement with the State.

A garda broke down today revealing she was threatened after discovering an officer’s interview notes were forged and altered on the original record during a murder probe.

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.

NIGHTCLUB owner Frank Shortt yesterday accepted a belated apology from the State for being framed by corrupt gardaí and wrongly jailed for 27 months.

The State today apologised unreservedly to Co Donegal man Frank Shortt for his wrongful conviction and imprisonment on trumped up charges that he allowed the sale of drugs at his former nightclub in Inishowen.

A FATHER-OF-TWO, who claimed he was assaulted while in custody at Letterkenny Garda Station, pointed out, at the Morris Tribunal yesterday, one of the detectives he alleges attacked him.

A father of two who claimed he was assaulted while in custody at Letterkenny Garda Station today pointed out one of the detectives he alleges attacked him.

THE Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors has insisted an ombudsman should have the final say in complaints from officers about their superiors.

The Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors has insisted an ombudsman should have the final say in complaints from officers about their superiors.

Gardaí are seeking to question convicted child killer Robert Howard about a series of unsolved murders of women, it emerged today.

Some Co Donegal gardaí tarnished after-hours drinking prosecutions against a Raphoe publican by planting a found-on in the pub, the Morris Tribunal heard today.

The McBrearty family demanded a public apology today from Minister for Justice Michael McDowell after he accused them of trying to blackmail and bully him.

A witness who falsely alleged he had received a death threat with a silver bullet seemed genuinely traumatised when he reported the incident, a Sligo garda inspector said today.

A retired Garda today denied that he was blaming a dead colleague for forgeries to cover his own tracks.

A former Sligo garda officer said he was unaware of controversy over a witness in a licensing prosecution against Frank McBrearty Snr, during a meeting with the witness and a senior officer ahead of the court case.

A FORMER Sligo garda said yesterday he was suspicious a senior officer was involved in the “setting up” of a false death threat claim following the arrest of the man who had made the allegations.

A former Sligo garda said today he was suspicious that a senior officer was involved in the “setting up” of a false death threat claim following the arrest of the man who had made the allegations.

A SERGEANT changed the locks on her station in Donegal after she found gardaí from another station pouring over inspection reports, the Morris Tribunal heard yesterday.

SENIOR gardaí gave instructions to target the McBrearty family as part of the investigation into the death of a Donegal cattle family, the Morris Tribunal into garda corruption heard yesterday.

GARDAÍ took nine months to probe claims by a Raphoe man that he was framed for making death threats, the Morris Tribunal into Garda corruption in Donegal heard yesterday.

Gardaí took nine months to probe claims a Raphoe man was framed for making sinister death threats with a silver bullet, it emerged today.

The Garda Siochana has been shamed by the lying and corruption of some of its officers in Donegal, Commissioner Noel Conroy admitted tonight.

The Government and Garda Commissioner will urgently examine the future of officers implicated in the latest damning Morris Tribunal report, Finance Minister Brian Cowen said today.

Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny has said Justice Minister Michael McDowell and his predecessors have serious questions to answer about garda corruption in Donegal.

THE first report of a tribunal into garda abuses in Co Donegal has still not been debated in the Dáil — 10 months after it was published.

The second interim report of the Morris Tribunal into allegations of Garda corruption in Donegal is to be published this summer, it emerged today.

Senior Government officials failed to act on early warnings from a private investigator over corruption among gardaí in Donegal, it was claimed today.

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.

A CHIEF superintendent ordered an exhumation of the body of Raphoe cattle dealer Richie Barron to be cancelled because a new post mortem could have been disastrous for a garda murder inquiry, the Morris Tribunal was told yesterday.

A report to the Director of Public Prosecutions about the death of Raphoe cattle dealer Richie Barron tried to avoid embarrassing investigating gardai, it was claimed today.

The confession of a man in connection with the death of Raphoe cattle dealer Richie Barron in 1996 was a fraud, a former Garda officer said today.

A disgraced superintendent conducted a ‘practice cross examination’ of two gardaí about their movements on the night a cattle dealer was killed in a suspected hit-and-run accident, the Morris Tribunal heard today.

A garda superintendent was involved in an elaborate plot to use statements to bring trouble on a fellow officer, it was claimed at the Morris Tribunal today.

An alleged IRA informer who was given a garda bleeper smashed it because he didn’t know how to turn it off, the Morris Tribunal heard today.

A former garda broke down at the Morris Tribunal today as he revealed the reason he denied an extortion phone call was made from his home for eight years.

A former garda promised to give evidence to the Morris Tribunal after he was threatened with possible legal action over his failure to appear, it emerged tonight.

A Garda sergeant who served with a United Nations police team in Bosnia in the 1990s today claimed he was not fit to give evidence at the Morris Tribunal.