A garda sergeant became a hate figure for a Donegal publican who destroyed his reputation and career, it was claimed today.

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 former top official with the Garda Complaints Board today said there was nothing special about a string of accusations received by the office in 1997 about alleged garda misconduct in Donegal.

A shamed former garda today strongly denied any involvement in the death 11 years ago of Donegal cattle dealer, Richie Barron.

A former Garda sergeant today insisted he was not to blame for Donegal publican Frank McBrearty Snr refusing to give evidence at the Morris Tribunal.

A Donegal publican told a former garda sergeant he was trained to kill a man with his bare hands, it was claimed today.

A Donegal publican who won almost €4.5m in damages can afford legal representation at a tribunal probing allegations of garda corruption, it was claimed today.

A lone garda was forced to flee a Donegal town for his own safety after a mob of up to 800 people began throwing glasses at him, it emerged today.

An experienced Garda today said he felt uneasy when a colleague revealed he had made a secret recording of an interview with a drugs suspect, at which both officers were present.

BUSINESS owners are not committing an offence if they refuse to evacuate their premises during a bomb scare, a tribunal heard yesterday.

Business owners are not committing a criminal offence if they refuse to evacuate their premises during a bomb scare, it emerged today.

The son of a man at the centre of Garda harassment allegations did not turn up today to give scheduled evidence at the Morris Tribunal.

Pub and nightclub inspections by gardai enforcing the liquor licensing law should be a quick-run strategy and not a prolonged exercise, the Morris Tribunal heard today.

Gardaí walked around with torches searching for suspect packages during several bomb scares at an unevacuated Donegal nightclub, the Morris Tribunal heard today.

Gardaí laid siege to a Donegal nightclub in the late 1990s, harassing and intimidating staff and customers in a manner worse than the Mafia, the Morris Tribunal heard today.

Student gardaí were sent undercover into a Donegal nightclub to expose breaches of the liquor licensing laws, the Morris Tribunal heard today.

An eircom employee helped a private detective access the home phone records of a senior Donegal garda officer, the Morris Tribunal heard today.

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.

A disgraced former detective single-handedly destroyed a small Co Donegal market town by waging a campaign of harassment against a prominent family, it was claimed today.

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 said he never sanctioned a crackdown on breaches of the liquor licensing law carried out by certain gardaí in the county during the late 1990s.

A private detective identified within 24 hours the source of blackmail calls to an innocent man during a murder investigation, but it took gardaí years to get the same information, 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.

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.

There were personality clashes between a Donegal publican and gardaí who were later accused of mounting a campaign of harassment, it was claimed today.

Confidential documents held by a solicitor could dismiss the credibility of a Donegal publican, it was claimed today.

A garda today denied harassing a Donegal publican who he claimed was a bully who always wanted his own way.

A Donegal publican who refused to evacuate his nightclub during a bomb scare instead “ranted and raved” to gardaí about how his family had been harassed by the force, a tribunal heard today.

A former member of the gardaí’s elite national surveillance unit today told a tribunal she smuggled a camcorder into a Donegal nightclub during a covert operation to expose liquor licensing law breaches.

A senior garda officer today rejected claims that he harassed a Donegal publican to get information about the death of a local cattle dealer.

A senior garda officer today rejected claims that he harassed a Donegal publican to get information about the death of a local cattle dealer.

Gardaí in Donegal used licensing laws to harass a publican, a solicitor claimed today.

A garda station was bugged during the detention of prisoners during a botched death probe in Donegal, a former garda revealed today.

A Co Tyrone man told the Morris Tribunal today he felt under pressure by gardai to give evidence in a criminal assault charge against a Donegal publican.

Disgraced former Detective Sergeant John White today insisted he never physically abused a woman in garda custody.

The former High Court president heading up the Morris Tribunal today dramatically walked out of the inquiry in a remarkable outburst over an alleged attack on his reputation.

A senior detective today said he accepted the McBrearty family went through hell in the years following a botched death probe in Donegal.

A publican wrongly accused of murder in a botched death probe was volatile, aggressive and abusive during questioning, it was claimed today.

A senior garda involved in a botched murder investigation in Donegal believed a confession had been signed by the prime suspect.

The wife of a man wrongly arrested as a murder suspect wept today as she told the Morris Tribunal their lives have been shattered and destroyed by his arrest.

A retired Donegal garda had no axe to grind with publican Frank McBrearty Snr when he was carrying out interviews as part of a murder probe, the Morris Tribunal heard today.

The mother of a Donegal publican arrested on suspicion of murdering a cattle dealer today broke down as she revealed the distress it caused her.

Key witness Frank McBrearty jnr failed to return to give evidence at the Morris Tribunal today causing it to be adjourned.