Alleged informer's IRA friendship 'not important'

A friendship between alleged informer Adrienne McGlinchey and a niece of top IRA figure Pearse McAuley played no part in a senior detective’s assessment of her as a source about terrorist activities, the Morris Tribunal was told today.

Central inquiry figure Detective Superintendent Kevin Lennon rejected consideration of the family link between the man who once shot his way out of police custody in Brixton, and Yvonne Devine, a flatmate of Ms McGlinchey in Co Donegal during the 1990s, when examining the credentials of the Letterkenny woman as a genuine informer.