Morris Tribunal: The alleged informer whose allegations form the basis of the current module at the Morris tribunal "is capable of lying about anything to anybody", the lawyer representing the detective she accuses of blackmailing her has said.
Mr Brian Murphy, appearing on behalf of suspended detective Noel McMahon, argued that Ms Adrienne McGlinchey had retracted many of the allegations she had initially made to the Carty inquiry team, and this de- monstrated her unreliability.
"It has been put to the tribunal that her evidence was the simple truth," Mr Murphy said.
"I am saying in contrast that it was totally unreliable. It is very hard to believe her about anything she would say.
"She can lie and lie and lie about the same incident in different ways."
Mr Murphy said that Det McMahon had met Ms McGlinchey for the first time when she was arrested on July 8th, 1991, and that shortly afterwards she moved to Buncrana. On July 18th, she wrote a bad cheque.
Ms McGlinchey's evidence was that Det McMahon had subsequently blackmailed her with the threat of prosecution over these cheques.
However, Mr Murphy said that on July 25th, only seven days after she had written the cheques, three C77 forms (an official Garda form) were submitted containing information from Ms McGlinchey, and that it did not make sense that within this short time Det McMahon and Ms McGlinchey were deceiving Det McMahon's partner Det Danny Kelly, and had invented "a fictitious character" who was named in the C77s.
"It doesn't make sense that he would become a corrupt cop from a good cop within a couple of days," Mr Murphy told the chairman.
In the current module, the tribunal investigated allegations that Det McMahon and Supt Kevin Lennon prepared explosives together with Ms McGlinchey which were later used in bogus Garda arms finds in Co Donegal during the 1990s.
Both denied the accusations, and Ms McGlinchey has insisted she was neither an informer nor a member of the IRA.