Alleged informer 'could have ended Garda link'

A detective today said he would not have blamed Letterkenny woman Adrienne McGlinchey if she had pulled out from her role as an alleged IRA informer if the gardaí had persisted with an arms search near her family’s home.

Detective Garda Noel McMahon told the Morris tribunal that he feared information from Ms McGlinchey would have dried up had the search operation been continued at a factory near Letterkenny, in June, 1994.