On-duty garda ‘would not admit to whereabouts’

AN on-duty garda would not admit to an investigation into the police force in Donegal his whereabouts on the night cattle dealer Richie Barron died, the Morris Tribunal heard yesterday.

Garda Martin Leonard, a local representative of the Garda Representative Association at the time, said Garda Pádraig Mulligan was being questioned by the Carty team about his location on the night of October 13/14, 1996.

The tribunal heard evidence from the then GRA representative, Garda Leonard, as to why Garda Mulligan would not admit at the time, or to the Carty investigators, to being in a pub in Lifford on the night in question. The tribunal was set up to look into the garda investigation after Mr Barron’s death on October 14, 1996.