Letter proposed garda should interview other witnesses

DEPARTED junior minister Trevor Sargent tried to tell a garda who should be interviewed as part of a criminal inquiry into a fight between neighbours.

Mr Sargent conceded he went too far when he used headed notepaper from the Department of Agriculture to influence the work of this investigator.

The garda had brought charges against Dominic McGowan, aged 39, of 14 Cardy Rock Close, and his neighbour Stephen Mulvany, aged 34, of 12 Cardy Rock Close, for fighting with each other.