A member of the extended McBrearty family broke down as she told of the ordeal her family has gone through since her husband became a suspect in the Richie Barron case.
Mr Barron was found lying by the roadside near Raphoe just before 1 a.m. on the morning of October 14th, 1996.
Mrs Roisin McConnell told the tribunal she found giving evidence "very stressful", and had to go into hospital after she was arrested in 1996.
"Me and my family had nothing to do with the death of Richie Barron and anything I told was the truth," she told Mr Justice Frederick Morris. "We got blamed for something we didn't do," she said, choking back tears.
She told the tribunal she and her husband Mark were in the Town & Country pub the night Mr Barron died. They went to Frankie's Nightclub after 1 a.m., leaving about 2 a.m. to spend the night with their friends, the Brollys. She said about 3 a.m. she phoned the Dolan household, and asked was her brother there. She denied she had asked was her husband there, as he was with her.
Mrs McConnell said Irene Dolan was mistaken in her statement to Sgt John White saying she called looking for her husband, Mark. She had not told Irene Dolan she was worried about Mark and did not know where he was, she said.
She phoned because the Dolans had been celebrating a birthday, and she wanted to continue drinking. She wouldn't intrude on a family gathering, but if her brother was there she would have felt it okay.
Eircom records show phone calls around 3 a.m. to Letterkenny Hospital, to numbers similar to the Dolan home, Town & Country, and Mrs McConnell's brother, possibly misdialled, and finally to the Dolans.
Mrs McConnell said Martin Laird was "a liar" in telling the tribunal he saw her husband coming out of the Town & Country pub at 8.30 a.m. the next morning, and that Collette McGlinchey was also lying in her evidence that she saw Mrs McConnell on the road near her home between 8.15 and 8.30 a.m.
Earlier, Frank McBrearty jnr told the Morris tribunal he has a "complete mistrust" of the gardaí, because they fabricated statements against him. He had lost all faith in the force because of his "alleged confession", he said.
Mr McBrearty (34) told the tribunal all he knew about the death of Richie Barron was "only rumours and what is in documents the tribunal has given me". He said he had no problem with the Barron family before 1996.
He said it was possible Sylvie Henry and not Insp John McGinley interviewed him on October 16th. Sgt Henry had verbally abused him and his father outside Letterkenny Hospital, he alleged.
Mr McBrearty agreed Supt Kevin Lennon had no part in the first Barron investigation, or in any alleged fabrication of statements.
Derek Ayton told the tribunal that he was in the Town & Country, and heard mention of a row involving Richie Barron but got the impression it wasn't serious. As he was heading home, he saw Barron leaving the Súile Tavern.
Catriona Brolly said she told Sgt John White she had no problem signing a consent form to look at her phone records, but no garda ever approached her to sign such a form.