Frank McBrearty Jr has instructed his lawyers to take action against the state after he was refused entry to the United States for a family holiday.

Frank McBrearty Jr displayed a copy of a cheque for €1.5m, which he received from the Garda Síochána in settlement of his long-running action, outside the High Court in Dublin today.

Lawyers for Frank McBrearty Jr, the Donegal publican framed for a murder that never was, are to meet state solicitors today in the latest stage in his battle for compensation.

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 debate is expected to be held in the Dáil later this month on the shocking revelations of the second report from the Morris Tribunal.

The chair of the Morris Tribunal today told a Donegal publican to wind up his cross-examination for the sake of the public purse.

Questions should have been raised over the reliability and motivation of damning statements implicating a Raphoe publican in the death of a local cattle dealer, it was claimed tonight.

A senior garda admitted to the Morris Tribunal today that two members of the McBrearty family were the only “realistic suspects” in the suspicious death of Richie Barron in 1996.

A senior garda today denied to the Morris Tribunal today that gardaí held a “one-track” investigation into the death of cattle dealer Richie Barron in 1996.