A friendship between alleged informer Adrienne McGlinchey and a niece of top IRA figure Pearse McAuley played no part in a senior detective’s assessment of her as a source about terrorist activities, the Morris Tribunal was told today.

Senior gardaí cleared the way for Adrienne McGlinchey to leave 60 kilos of home-made explosives, intended for an IRA attack on a RUC base, close the border without being challenged or arrested, the Morris Tribunal today heard.

A Letterkenny man told the Morris Tribunal into Co Donegal garda corruption allegations today how he was asked to hide two walkie-talkie radios and a charger in a stable 12 years ago.

Alleged 1990s IRA informer Adrienne McGlinchey was recalled by a senior garda officer today as “immature and giddy, but “someone you should keep your eye on”.

Two of the main towns in Co Donegal were prime locations for on-the-run IRA personnel during the height of the terrorist campaign during the 1980s and 1990s, the Morris Tribunal probe of Garda corruption allegations heard today.

A former neighbour of key Morris garda corruption tribunal witness Adrienne McGlinchey recalled today how he obtained bullets, cartridges and a bag of fertiliser for her.

A former detective today told the Morris Tribunal into Garda corruption how he was asked by a central figure in the probe to take responsibility for a non-existent file on an explosives find.

Two former detectives today told the Morris Tribunal into Garda corruption of their doubts over the veracity of information relayed to the force in Co Donegal by alleged IRA insider Adrienne McGlinchey during the 1990s.

Information relayed to gardaí in Co Donegal by alleged IRA informant Adrienne McGlinchey during the 1990s, was dismissed as “pure rubbish” by a retired detective today.

The republican credentials of key Morris Tribunal witness Adrienne McGlinchey were called into question at today’s session of the garda corruption probe.

A key witness at the Morris tribunal into garda corruption claims admitted today she received money from both the gardai and a woman with suspected terrorist links for relaying information to them.

A witness at the Morris tribunal today revealed the deep debt of gratitude she owed a key figure in the inquiry.

The Morris Tribunal probe into alleged garda corruption heard today about noisy metal-grinding work that went on late into the night in a first floor flat of a house in Buncrana, Co Donegal.

A woman who lived in the same block of flats as key Morris garda corruption probe witness Adrienne McGlinchey told today of seeing black bin bags full of a white powder in the hallway of Ms McGlinchey’s home more than a decade ago.

A detective today told the Morris tribunal about unease in the force more than a decade ago over a high-ranking decision to free a woman detained in possession of walkie-talkie radio sets.

A Garda called to a suspected bomb factory find today admitted neither securing the scene or passing on the information to his local station chiefs.

The landlord of a flat in Buncrana, Co Donegal found terrorist-type materials when he called at his premises to check reports of a plumbing leak, the Morris Tribunal into garda corruption today heard.

A witness at the Morris garda corruption tribunal admitted today that she had been “a very naive person” not to become suspicious when her flatmate began collecting bullets, bomb-making fertiliser, walkie-talkie radios and other terrorist-linked paraphenalia.

MORRIS TRIBUNAL witness Adrienne McGlinchey complained today of the hounding she received at the hands of an internal garda investigation of alleged improper policing activities in Co Donegal during the 1990s.

Crucial Morris tribunal witness Adrienne McGlinchey today heard herself called a cunning and pathological liar and was accused of inventing much of her evidence.

The Morris Tribunal went behind closed doors today as colourful witness Adrienne McGlinchey began her fifth day of evidence at the garda corruption inquiry by denying any form of sexual relationship with Detective Garda Noel McMahon, one of the central figures in the on-going probe.

A SERIES of apparent coups by Donegal gardaí in their fight against subversives prompted diplomatic praise all the way from London.