Farrell insists she was telling truth over garda apology

Marie Farrell yesterday insisted she was telling the truth when she told a Garda inquiry a detective sergeant apologised to her over an incident in which she alleged he exposed himself to her before saying words to the effect “fitting up” journalist Ian Bailey was a “turn on”.

Ms Farrell said her statement to a Garda inquiry that Det Sgt Maurice Walsh came to a bedroom where she was staying in Dublin’s Ashling Hotel in 1999 and had apologised to her over the alleged exposure incident in Schull golf club the previous summer was the truth.

Paul O’Higgins SC, for the State, put to her what she had said was “absolutely untrue”. She replied it was “true.”