Alleged informer visited US to collect weapon documents, says garda

ALLEGED informer Adrienne McGlinchey flew to the United States on the premise of collecting documents relating to a weapon but returned empty-handed, the Morris Tribunal heard yesterday.

Ms McGlinchey's former handler Detective Garda Noel McMahon told the corruption probe the Letterkenny woman told him she had been asked to go to the US by the IRA to collect documents relating to a high-powered weapon.

In the event, though, Ms McGlinchey returned from her trip, which went ahead in November 1994 months after the start of the first IRA ceasefire, empty-handed and said she had not been contacted by IRA personnel.