Karen and Adrienne McGlinchey are this week putting the finishing touches to a book that will detail the tumultuous events of their lives in the past 13 years.
The Letterkenny sisters have spent the past two years writing their story of how Adrienne got involved with gardaí 13 years ago and became a key witness at the the Morris tribunal's module on explosives.
According to Karen the book explains their family's trauma and stress and how it brought them closer together. The decision to write the book was cemented as they sat through the Court of Criminal Appeal's hearing of the Frank Shortt case.
Mr Shortt was granted a certificate of miscarriage of justice in 2002 after his conviction for knowingly allowing drugs to be sold in his Quigley's Point nightclub was quashed. He served three years in jail, was fined £10,000 and his uninsured premises burned down while he was in prison.
This week Karen said: "We were sitting in the court in Dublin ... I could see the Shortt family sitting there. About 50 gardaí came in and I thought to myself they are each going to take the Bible in their hand and swear to tell the truth. If the truth had been told by everyone from the outset there would have been no tribunal and that decided it for me. It was time to tell our own story, the personal, human story behind it," Karen said.The sisters are in discussion with four publishers secure a deal on the book which does not touch on the McBrearty aspect of the tribunal.