Telecoms mast at centre of corruption claims

Ardara, on the edge of Donegal’s western seaboard, became another town blackened by allegations of garda corruption after an arson attack on a telecommunications mast and an explosive was planted at it in November 1996.

Locals fiercely opposed to the 80ft aerial being built on a hill near the town fought long and hard to block it, with arsonists setting fire to a container on the site causing IR£50,000 of damage.