Garda unions expressed regret at the death of John Carthy and called for improvements in training recommended by the Barr Tribunal report to be acted on immediately.

The Government was today criticised for a lack of information on the forthcoming report into the fatal shooting of John Carthy in Abbeylara, Co Longford more than six years ago.

THE release of the report into the fatal shooting by gardaí of John Carthy in 2000 is to be delayed by three months.

GARDAÍ involved in the Abbeylara siege are threatening to walk out on the Barr Tribunal when it resumes this morning unless chairman, Justice Robert Barr, makes a peace offering to their senior counsel, John Rogers, who quit the hearings in protest last month.

Today the Barr Tribunal set up to investigate the circumstances of John Carthy's death, heard from Sergeant Daniel Monaghan who was in charge of Carthy's local station at the time of his death.

A psychiatrist has criticised the gardai for using cigarettes as a negotiating tool during the armed siege that led to the killing of 27-year-old John Carthy in Abbeylara, Co Longford, in April 2000.

The inquiry into the killing of John Carthy by armed gardai in April 2000 has continued hearing evidence from a psychiatrist who treated the 27-year-old.

The inquiry into the killing of John Carthy by armed gardai in April 2000 has begun hearing evidence from a psychiatrist who treated the 27-year-old.

THE last doctor to see John Carthy alive found him eager to return to work and get on with his life after coming through a renewed bout of manic depression.

A PSYCHIATRIST who treated John Carthy declared him fit to have a firearm after his GP refused to help get his shotgun back from gardaí because of concern over his mental state.

NO schedule has yet been set out for public hearings of the Abbeylara Tribunal of Inquiry which opens in Longford today because the planned venue is still not ready.

The High Court will hear applications for legal representation on behalf of witnesses in the Abbeylara inquiry later this morning.

Michael McDowell has appointed Justice Robert Barr as the sole member of a tribunal of inquiry into the fatal shooting of John Carthy at Abbeylara, Co Longford.

The Garda Commissoner has told the inquiry into the Abbeylara incident, that in hindsight a section of the garda report might have been different.

The all-party Oireachtas committee formed to investigate the death of John Carthy in Abbeylara, Co Longford last year has visited the scene where he was killed.