Informer 'outwitted' shamed garda, tribunal told

A sacked superintendent tried to plant explosives on a Co Donegal farm in 1997 but was “outwitted” by his garda informer, the Morris Tribunal heard today.

Informer 'outwitted' shamed garda, tribunal told

A sacked superintendent tried to plant explosives on a Co Donegal farm in 1997 but was “outwitted” by his garda informer, the Morris Tribunal heard today.

Chief Supt Denis Fitzpatrick, who retired last year after he was criticised in the tribunal’s first report, claimed that Supt Kevin Lennon hatched the hoax find with local informer William Doherty in March 1997.

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