Tribunal told gardaí insisted on pursuing family

The Morris Tribunal heard today that top-level gardaí probing the controversial death of cattle dealer Richie Barron in 1996 insisted on pursuing members of the McBrearty family for the crime despite stronger evidence against other suspects.

An experienced senior garda said he believed that petty thief Paul ‘Gazza’ Gallagher was involved in the apparent hit-and-run in Raphoe which later became a murder investigation.