IRA would probably have killed alleged informer McGlinchey, tribunal told

ALLEGED informer Adrienne McGlinchey would probably have been killed by the IRA if she had relayed to gardaí intelligence of the sort claimed during the Morris Tribunal, the inquiry heard yesterday.

Former Co Donegal Superintendent Tom Monaghan said the Letterkenny woman's death at the hands of the Provisionals would have been likely had she given gardaí the kind of information that has been reported to the garda corruptions probe.

Paul Murray, counsel for Ms McGlinchey, put it to the superintendent after referring to a series of huge explosives finds linked by witnesses to his client. "If she were informing to that extent and had knowledge to that extent, am I correct in thinking in very bald terms that she would now be dead?" he said.