Morris Tribunal unearths bizarre tales of death and deception

TALES, unprecedented and extraordinary, of death, deception and destructive ambition unfolded this week in a Donegal courthouse.

Many of the allegations of garda corruption in the Donegal division that have been circulating for years were clinically revealed in the Morris Tribunal's opening statement by lead counsel Peter Charleton, and later by his colleague Paul McDermott.

Statements made to various garda inquiry teams, most notably the Carty investigation, were detailed, but the stories told in many cases were so wildly contradictory that at every point lies have been told.