A Co Donegal woman has said members of the Carty Garda inquiry into allegations of corruption among gardaí in Co Donegal told her they believed another woman had "manipulated" two senior Garda officers into concocting bomb-making material and leaving it in different locations in Donegal to find it again.
Ms Karen McGlinchey, of Port Road, Letterkenny, also said a floppy disk which had the names of Det Garda Noel McMahon and Ms McGlinchey's own solicitor on it, and which contained a record of events of the previous nine to 10 months, was among items which were missing after three break-ins at her home in late 1999.
The break-ins occurred between October and December 1999 after she had met members of the Carty team. The floppy disk and tapes went missing. Nothing else was taken.
In her meetings with members of the Carty team in October 1999, she had discussed tape recordings which her sister, Adrienne, had earlier told the court she had made in relation to conversations Adrienne allegedly had with Insp (now Supt) Kevin Lennon and Det Garda McMahon, both formerly attached to Buncrana Garda station.
Adrienne has told the court one of those conversations related to the Point Inn nightclub owned by Mr Frank Shortt and that one of the tapes confirmed Insp Lennon had known drugs were planted in the Point Inn.
Ms Karen McGlinchey said she was aware of the existence of the tapes around 1996. The Carty team had asked her if she could locate the tapes and in 1999 she found two of them.
She met Mr Kevin Carty and others of his team on October 13th, 1999, and perhaps another occasion and told them she had the tapes but they were all muffled and she could not make out anything on them.
The gardaí said they had equipment which could analyse the tapes but she was not happy about handing them over and wanted to seek further legal advice.
Ms McGlinchey said the team were talking about meetings they were having with Adrienne and said some of Adrienne's evidence was perhaps mixed up. Ms McGlinchey said she wasn't surprised by that as Adrienne was being interviewed for many hours over several weeks.
Either Mr Carty or Insp Hugh Coll had said they believed Adrienne had manipulated Mr Lennon and Mr McMahon into this "activity", which she said was concocting bomb-making materials and leaving it in different locations in Donegal to find it again.
Adrienne had said the Carty team had asked her to do interviews with them in the absence of her solicitor.
Mr McMahon had come to her (Karen's) home in April 1999, at the start of the Carty investigation, and had spoken about another woman who he said was causing a lot of trouble and doing "a lot of mouthing". He said the woman had taken explosives and guns from his home, which material, he said, belonged to Adrienne.
Mr McMahon told her not to worry, all she had to do was keep quiet, that he liked Adrienne and would go to jail for her. Ms McGlinchey said she was shocked, very angry and believed Adrienne was being set up by members of the Garda.
She had written down what Adrienne had told her about things involving the gardaí in Buncrana and Letterkenny.
She told Mr McMahon she had sent this material to her solicitor and told Supt Fitzgerald in Letterkenny about it some months earlier.
She told Mr McMahon and the Carty team she had material on floppy disk.
She had transferred the material from the floppy to another disk because it was damaged and it was actually the damaged disk which was taken in the later break-ins. She still had the undamaged one.
She had also recorded, on a cassette tape which also went missing in the break-ins, greetings which were recorded, unknown to Adrienne, on Adrienne's mobile phone.
Those greetings included a vulgar message of a sexual nature about Adrienne.
She had thought she recognised Mr McMahon's voice as the voice on the greeting but Adrienne had said it wasn't his.
Ms McGlinchey also referred to a video tape referred to earlier by Adrienne in her evidence.
Adrienne had said it showed Mr Lennon coming into her shop. Adrienne had hidden it in a locked cabinet.
Ms Karen McGlinchey said the shop was robbed in April 1999. She called the gardaí and there was a great response. They asked her about security camera recordings and for the tapes of these.
She handed the tapes over but not that featuring Mr Lennon. She was given the robber's name and address that same evening. It was "the most amazing piece of detective work I'd ever seen". The court was told the gardaí returned the next day.
Gardaí had also told her in 1991 that Adrienne was at an IRA house in Buncrana. The witness said she went there. Adrienne was not there and was living in a tent.
The hearing continues today.