Third day of Sheenagh McMahon’s testimony

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.

The 42-year-old estranged wife of detective Noel McMahon and mother-of-three, was in the witness box at the garda corruption probe for a third successive day. She rejected suggestions that a number of plastic bags at her home, which she claimed she was told contained bomb parts, actually held second-hand clothing gifts for her three children.

She also dismissed a newspaper report that she had been a mental patient, and expressed anger at the claim that she was a lesbian, which was made by Garda Alison Teape, who is now in a relationship with her estranged husband.