[Former Detective Sergeant John White, leaving the Morris Tribunal, Dublin in 2005 and who was subsequently dismissed from An Garda Síochána. The Morris Tribunal concluded Mr White had planted a shotgun at a Travellers’ camp in Burnfoot, Co. Donegal in May 1998 in order to arrest seven innocent people for questioning about the killing of pensioner Edward Fitzmaurice in his Mayo home two weeks earlier. It also concluded he induced Raphoe man Bernard Conlonto be found after hours drinking on the premises of Frankie’s nightclub, owned by the McBreartys, in Raphoe in August 1997 – for the purposes of prosecuting Frank McBrearty Snr.]
A prominent Donegal solicitor has called for the findings of the Morris Tribunal to be revisited in the wake of the revelations about the widespread recording of phone calls to and from Garda stations.
Paudge Dorrian, who went public with claims in 2001 that conversations between solicitors and their clients were being recorded at Letterkenny Garda Station, has made the call.
Mr. Dorrian said that the revelations about the recording of phone calls vindicates himself and his client, former Garda sergeant John White, who was the source of the allegations.
“What we are looking at we feel that the entire history of the Tribunal and other matters should now be revisited by an independent tribunal, led preferably by a High Court judge from a different jurisdiction,” he said.
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