A former detective sergeant sacked for corruption today vowed to fight his dismissal in the courts.
John White, who falsely claimed he tipped off the RUC about a Real IRA bomb plot weeks before the Omagh atrocity in 1998, was told he had been fired last week.
He was also labelled corrupt, manipulative and a liar by the Morris Tribunal.
But Mr White insisted he would fight Garda Commissioner Noel Conroy's decision to sack him in the High Court. "Absolutely, (I'll) take legal action in relation to it," the officer said today.
Mr White was handed a letter signed by Garda Commissioner Noel Conroy last Thursday night telling him that at midnight he would no longer be a member of An Garda Síochána. The sacking was agreed by the Cabinet last week.
The Commissioner made his decision, which is final with no avenue of appeal within the force, under section 14(2) of the new Garda Síochána Act.
His sacking was made on the basis of findings in the Ardara Report from the Morris Tribunal. Mr Justice Frederick Morris found White planted an explosive, or had someone do it for him, on a telecommunications mast near the west Donegal town which led to three local people being arrested.
He said Mr White's evidence to the tribunal was riddled with inconsistencies and branded him a liar.
Paudge Dorrian, Mr White's solicitor, said they would apply for a judicial review in the High court early in the New Year.
"We will be appealing the basis of the dismissal and also on the grounds that the [Garda Síochána] Act is unconstitutional, that it does not make provisions for due process," Mr Dorrian said.
"They [An Garda Síochána] are attempting to use it retrospectively and there are no retrospective provisions," he added. "The Commissioner is judging his own call, the system itself is completely and totally wrong."
Mr White insists he is being made the scapegoat over corruption in Donegal after claiming senior gardai were allowing terror attacks orchestrated in the Republic over the border. He said he passed on information, which was never acted on, about stolen cars to colleagues weeks before the Omagh attack.
Mr White also claims he warned officers about two rocket attacks in Belleek, Co Fermanagh and in Co Armagh.
Last month the Nally report found these allegations were completely without foundation. And it said he made them as a direct consequence of, and motivated solely by his desire to protect his own career as he faced allegations of corruption in Donegal. The report said it was clear Mr White had made no allegation, or mention whatsoever of his concerns to any person, including his wife, until after he had been arrested on March 21st, 2000.