Whistleblower court costs to be paid by the State

The State has agreed to pay the court costs of Ireland’s original whistleblowers after discovering that gardaí withheld vital information on their case.

The McBrearty family from Donegal were wrongly accused of being involved in the death of cattle dealer Richie Barron, whose body was found on a roadside outside the village of Raphoe in 1996.

The family battled to clear their names but were met with a litany of Garda corruption, which resulted in the setting up of the Morris tribunal in 2002.