A VITAL witness at the Morris Tribunal’s investigation into alleged garda corruption yesterday told of “the most terrible time in my life” — the period when she claims to have been blackmailed by a detective into acting like a terrorist.

Alleged garda informer Adrienne McGlinchey is due to resume her evidence to the Morris Tribunal later today.

AN alleged IRA informant yesterday told the Morris Tribunal how she and two gardaí carried bomb-making equipment into addresses in Co Donegal.

The main witness in the current phase of the Morris Tribunal has revealed that a statement she gave to the Court of Criminal Appeal last year was factually incorrect.

An alleged IRA informer at the centre of garda corruption claims in Co Donegal is to take the stand at the Morris Tribunal later today.

The main witness at the Morris Tribunal has accused gardaí in Buncrana, Co Donegal, of turning a blind eye to her husband's violence.

A Co Donegal Superintendent will continue his cross-examination of the main witness at the Morris Tribunal later today.

KEY Morris Tribunal witness Sheenagh McMahon faced a grilling yesterday from lawyers after she alleged that garda officers let the IRA bomb a Northern Ireland town.

Lawyers for a detective at the centre of garda corruption allegations in Co Donegal have accused the detective's wife of lying to the Morris Tribunal set up to investigate the claims.

Sheenagh McMahon, who has rocked the Morris Tribunal with allegations about a garda-permitted IRA bomb in Northern Ireland, faced persistent cross-examination at today’s session of the probe into garda corruption.

Lawyers for a Co Donegal Garda are due to cross-examine his ex-wife today about allegations she made against her estranged husband.

A VITAL witness at the Morris Tribunal into garda corruption yesterday said she felt her life had been a lie when she realised a series of claimed successful garda strikes against terrorism had been bogus.

The estranged wife of a Donegal garda accused of staging hoax explosives finds, has told the Morris Tribunal her only motivation for giving evidence is to tell the truth.

The gardai allowed the IRA to plant a bomb which exploded in the Northern Ireland town of Strabane, Co Tyrone in the early 1990s, Morris Tribunal witness Sheenagh McMahon today claimed.

Key Morris Tribunal witness Sheenagh McMahon today insisted a statement she made retracting allegations of Garda corruption had been the result of “coercion and pressure”.

The woman whose allegations form a central part of investigations into garda corruption in Donegal is due to give evidence to the Morris Tribunal later today.

An exacting question-and-answer session between two garda superintendents continued today at another session of the Morris Tribunal into alleged Garda corruption.

The superintendent at the centre of garda corruption allegations in Co Donegal will continue cross-examining a fellow superintendent at the Morris Tribunal later today.

TWO senior Garda officers centrally caught up in allegations about corruption in the force were involved in day-long face-to-face exchanges at the investigating Morris Tribunal yesterday.

A superintendent at the centre of garda corruption allegations in Co Donegal has begun personally cross-examining another superintendent to whom some of the allegations were made.

A woman who has claimed that her ex-husband was involved in garda corruption in Donegal is due to give evidence before the Morris Tribunal later today.

The wife of a garda accused of staging explosives finds to further his own career is due to give evidence before the Morris Tribunal later today.

A MEMBER of the Garda Representative Association admitted yesterday he trusted only half of the force’s senior management in Donegal.

ONE of the key witnesses in the tribunal into allegations of garda corruption in Donegal faced pressure to withdraw claims her husband was involved in staging hoax explosives finds, the Morris Tribunal heard yesterday.

AN extraordinary tale involving allegations that two gardaí were involved in the death of cattle dealer Richie Barron emerged at the Morris Tribunal yesterday.

PEOPLE have lied in relation to virtually every paragraph of the terms of reference of the Garda corruption tribunal, lead counsel Peter Charleton said yesterday.

Seán McCárthaigh analyses an investigation that uncovered much more than gardaí or the public could have imagined