MORRIS TRIBUNAL: Ms Adrienne McGlinchey accepted at the Morris tribunal yesterday that she had been involved in a "crazy" series of events and said if she was reading reports of them, she would have everyone "committed".
Mr Peter Charleton SC for the tribunal said it could be suggested that Ms McGlinchey had a "deeply mischievous personality" and liked to invent things and have gardaí following her. "These events happened; how crazy they sound," she said.
Ms McGlinchey said she was not "completely stable" in 1999 because of her involvement with the Carty inquiry and the reaction of gardaí in Donegal to it.
She was unhappy with the way gardaí interviewed her during the Carty inquiry. She was questioned for 12 or 13 hours a day and was "completely disoriented" by it. The Carty team had "put things into my mind", she said.
The Assistant Garda Commissioner, Mr Kevin Carty, who led the inquiry, had "my head fried" she said, and he would not let her out of the room until she told him who killed Richie Barron.
The 1996 death of the Raphoe cattle dealer led to the setting up of the Morris tribunal. She said Det Garda McMahon had told her in 1996 that two gardaí had killed Mr Barron but she didn't believe it.
Ms McGlinchey had been assured that nobody would know she was talking to the Carty inquiry yet all the gardaí seemed to know. They were stopping outside her premises and she was being jeered at.
She was given full protection by the Garda's Emergency Response Unit (ERU) but said Det Garda McMahon had still frightened her in a car park in Letterkenny. He kept walking in front of her and would not let her into her car, she said.
When the ERU officers approached, he told them to "sod off", Ms McGlinchey said.
As she drove off, he stayed in front of the car and may have even jumped on the car bonnet, she said.
Ms McGlinchey told the tribunal that her home had been broken into twice last week while she was in at the Morris tribunal and a family car was stolen and burnt out at the Border.
Had this happened in 1999, she would have been completely paranoid and connected it with the other events, she said. Now she saw it as a coincidence.
Ms McGlinchey will continue giving evidence this morning before the tribunal goes into closed session.
