McBrearty and McGlinchey
McBrearty serves summons on Gardaí’s fake IRA informer
by Zoë Tunney
z.tunney@dailyireland.com
Frank McBrearty Jr, the Donegal publican at the centre of the second module of the Morris tribunal into Garda corruption, has served Adrienne McGlinchey with a summons to appear in the High Court for his action against the state.
Miss McGlinchey was the subject of the tribunal’s first module.
Mr McBrearty wants her to answer questions over alleged false statements he claims she made about him during the Carty investigation.
The Carty team was made up of gardaí assigned to investigate claims of Garda corruption in the Co Donegal division.
Adrienne’s sister Karen McGlinchey said Adrienne was on holiday and was not due back in time for the court case.
Daily Ireland has learned that a summons has already been served on Adrienne McGlinchey. The court case begins in Dublin tomorrow and is expected to last five weeks.
During the Morris tribunal, it emerged that Garda officers had used Adrienne McGlinchey as a supposed IRA informer and framed Frank McBrearty Jr for the supposed murder of the cattle dealer Richie Barron. The tribunal cleared both Frank McBrearty and Adrienne McGlinchey. The tribunal ruled that, in both cases, the Donegal gardaí had been negligent and guilty of gross misconduct.
The final leg of the lengthy legal battle sees both parties pitted against each other in the High Court.
Mr McBrearty’s solicitors have called around 60 people to give evidence at the civil action.
Miss McGlinchey is to appear in court regarding an alleged incident in which she said Frank McBrearty had paid her cash for Garda information on the death of Richie Barron. Karen McGlinchey said that she had no record of any such statement made by her sister to the Carty investigation.
Daily Ireland has obtained a copy of the Carty report, which states that, some time after Richie Barron was supposedly murdered, Adrienne McGlinchey alleged that a garda had forced her to take an envelope of documents to Mr McBrearty.
“She was told to take them to a prearranged location,” the Carty report states.
The reports says Adrienne McGlinchey opened the envelope and saw that some of the documents contained details of Richie Barron’s supposed murder.
The Carty report reads: “When she [Adrienne McGlinchey] handed over the envelope to Frank McBrearty Jr, he handed her an envelope. She later checked the envelope and it contained £4,000 [£3,400 sterling; €5,000] in cash.” Adrienne McGlinchey told the Carty team that she then handed the cash over to the garda officer who had been using her as an informer.
Mr McBrearty vehemently denies her claims. He says he wants Miss McGlinchey to say in court which garda officer made her make the statements.
“I have never met Adrienne McGlinchey. I do not know why she said it.
“I want her to come clean about it and tell us once and for all which garda made her do it,” Mr McBrearty said.
