Top gardaí 'approved explosives drop'

Senior gardaí cleared the way for Adrienne McGlinchey to leave 60 kilos of home-made explosives, intended for an IRA attack on a RUC base, close the border without being challenged or arrested, the Morris Tribunal today heard.

Ms McGlinchey’s then handler, Detective Garda Noel McMahon, told the corruption probe that the go-ahead for the 1994 operation was given by senior garda officers at a specially-arranged meeting. And part of the deal was said to involve a high-ranking garda “acting drunk”.