A GARDA chief wanted the Cork man accused of money-laundering to rubberstamp the view that Phil Flynn was behind the Northern Bank robbery, but the accused said he was so tired and confused during interrogation that he would have agreed that Mother Teresa was his sister.

HARASSMENT. Appalling dereliction of duty. Terrible injustice. Endemic corruption. Shocking scandals.

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 private detective today admitted illegally obtaining telephone records in an attempt to clear the names of a Donegal family at the centre of a botched murder inquiry.

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.

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.

Former Taoiseach John Bruton today denied trying to silence one of his TDs who led a campaign to help a Donegal family expose garda corruption.

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 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 leading publishing house has shelved plans for a new book telling how corrupt gardai tried to frame a Donegal businessman for a murder that never was.

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.

There is no evidence to back up an accusation a senior Donegal garda planted drugs on a man he arrested at a nightclub, it was claimed today.

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.

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 garda sergeant stationed in Donegal in the late 1990s today told a tribunal she regrets not speaking-out about an alleged campaign of harassment levied at a local publican by senior officers.

A Garda detective claimed a Donegal publican threatened to kill him during an inspection of his father’s nightclub, the Morris Tribunal heard today.

FORMER Detective Sergeant John White threatened to crush a Donegal nightclub dynasty in just six weeks, the Morris Tribunal heard yesterday.

Fallen detective sergeant John White threatened to crush a Donegal nightclub dynasty in just six weeks, the Morris Tribunal heard today.

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.

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.

A Donegal garda sacked for his role in a botched murder investigation today claimed Frank McBrearty Jr beat himself up while in custody.

A Donegal father-of-four felt like a member of the Guildford Four after being interrogated about a murder which never happened, the Morris Tribunal heard today.

A man who was found by the Morris Tribunal to have colluded with gardaí in the framing of the McBrearty family has apologised for his actions.

THE Morris Tribunal was unable to stand up claims that a garda detective urged a small-time crook to fabricate a story that he received a death threat from members of the extended McBrearty family.

The Morris Tribunal into garda corruption in Donegal today concluded its sub-module into the detention of Michael Peoples.

LIKE myself and the wider world, you may have been under the illusion that this country was democratically run by the Government on a cabinet basis.

THE claim that gardaí weren’t aware a member of the extended McBrearty family had an alibi for the night he was alleged to have threatened a witness with a silver bullet is laughable, a former detective sergeant said.

The claim gardaí weren’t aware a member of the extended McBrearty family had an alibi for the night he was alleged to have threatened a witness with a silver bullet is laughable, a former detective sergeant said today.

A witness who alleged he was threatened with a silver bullet by two members of the extended McBrearty family did so because he was devious, a former detective sergeant said today.

DONEGAL businessman Frank McBrearty Jnr, who was framed by gardaí for murder, yesterday said his record compensation pay-out of €1.5 million and apology from the Government proved the extent of abuse he had suffered.

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.

A DETECTIVE sergeant was suspected of having an unethical involvement with a witness in cases against the McBrearty family in Donegal, a member of an internal garda investigation team said yesterday.

Detective Sergeant John White was already suspected of unethical involvement with a witness before the arrest of the witness who implicated him, a top garda claimed today.