The Barr Tribunal has heard that members of John Carthy's extended family phoned Granard Garda Station offering to talk to Mr Carthy during the siege.
Garda Maeve Gorman was on duty in the station on the day the siege started. She told the Tribunal she passed this information on to her superiors.
Garda Gorman had earlier taken the call from John Carthy's cousin Anne Walsh, reporting that John was firing shots into the air. Garda Gorman had dispatched two Gardaí to the scene.
The Barr Tribunal is investigating the Garda Emergency Response Unit's fatal shooting of 27-year-old John Carthy outside his home at Abbeylara, County Longford, in April 2000.
The Tribunal has also been hearing evidence from Alice Farrell, who lives nextdoor to the Carthys. She told the Tribunal that Mr Carthy had spoken many times about his 'bad feelings' towards the Gardaí.
She said he told her many times that he had been abused in the Garda Station after being arrested, questioned and later released after the burning of a football mascot in 1998.
She said when the Gardaí were called on the day the siege started, somebody (she could not recall who) had told them that Mr Carthy did not trust the Gardaí.
