Ex garda plotted to blackmail head officer

A former Donegal garda plotted to blackmail the county’s most senior officer by secretly taping a conversation with him over the IRA’s torture of an informer, it emerged today.

Ex garda plotted to blackmail head officer

A former Donegal garda plotted to blackmail the county’s most senior officer by secretly taping a conversation with him over the IRA’s torture of an informer, it emerged today.

Disgraced ex-superintendent Kevin Lennon told the Morris Tribunal his one-time colleague John O’Dowd recorded a phone call with the head of the force in Donegal.

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