Garda supported extortion calls to McBrearty cousin

Cormac O’Keeffe

Superiors of the officer, Garda John O’Dowd, tried to cover up the scandal once it emerged and came under internal garda investigation, the report said.

Phone calls to the home of Michael Peoples and his wife, Charlotte, began on November 9, 1996, almost a month after Mr Barron’s death.