GRA concerns highlighted at Morris Tribunal
Concerns within the Garda Representative Association over evidence given by senior officers to the Morris Tribunal were spelled out today.
Lawyer Tom Murphy told the corruption allegations probe that GRA members felt garda management had to be more accountable for their actions.
Delivering his final submission to the now-closing stages of the first phase of the marathon tribunal, Mr Murphy added: “The association, has over the years, been concerned that those with the rank of inspector and above are not accountable for any act or omission on their part.
“Some members take the view that while disciplinary regulations should apply to all ranks, they, in fact, only apply to rank-and-file members, and they are only invoked against them.
The current module of the tribunal centres on claims that two Co Donegal-based detectives, Superintendent Kevin Lennon and Garda Noel McMahon, together with alleged IRA informer Adrienne McGlinchey, prepared explosives during the 1990s that later turned up in bogus garda finds of terrorist arms.
Both officers have denied the allegations and Letterkenny woman Ms McGlinchey had insisted she was never either an informer or a member of the IRA.
Mr Murphy told inquiry chairman Mr Justice Frederick Morris: “The association wishes to put on record that while the problems outlined in this module are not unique to Donegal, they are not universal.”
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