Garda spent cold nights in ditch spying on IRA

A RETIRED garda with 30 years of dedicated service revealed he spent every night for more than three months hiding in a ditch watching an 11-strong IRA unit making a lethal two-tonne bomb.

Garda spent cold nights in ditch  spying on IRA

The Morris Tribunal yesterday heard PJ Togher spent the freezing winter of 1992 lying alone in a ditch near Drumkeen, Co Donegal, as the Provo gang built the massive explosive.

In a statement to tribunal investigators in September 2003 as they probed garda corruption, Mr Togher told of the efforts he had made to catch the IRA unit and he spoke of his sadness at claims of dirty policing.

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