A former detective sergeant being questioned by the Smithwick Tribunal about allegations of collusion with the IRA has denied that he was a double agent acting for the paramilitary group.
The Tribunal has been going through intelligence reports filed by Owen Corrigan during 1985.
They detailed information he had filed on C77 forms to Garda HQ about the activity of Provisional IRA and INLA members.
Counsel for the Tribunal, Justin Dillon, described some of them as "more 'Social and Persona'l than intelligence."
However, Mr Corrigan said it was important that all information was sent to HQ for analysis. He said he found the suggestion that he could have been a double agent "insulting."
In all, the witness sent in 415 intelligence or C77 forms between 1974 and 1989 but he said he also passed information directly to superior officers in the Phoenix Park.
One of these related to the murder of British army Captain, Robert Nairac.
Mr Corrigan said Capt Nairac had been a visitor to a house at Glennane in Co Armagh where several loyalist and RUC members met and organised attacks.
He claimed that four RUC members who were part of the Glenanne Gang were charged with murder.
Capt Nairac was being passed intelligence by a member of the IRA and when the IRA learned of this they set a trap for him.
The army officer was taken from a pub in south Armagh across the border into Ravensdale Forest where he was held while the IRA men went to get permission from their Officer Commanding who was drinking in a pub in Dundalk.
Capt Nairac made an attempt to escape and ran across some fields.
However, he was hit with a fencing post and knocked to the ground.
The OC of the IRA unit then gave permission for him to be "executed" according to the witness.
Mr Corrigan also spoke about rescuing the now First Minister for Northern Ireland, Peter Robinson and his wife, Iris, when their car got stuck in snow in Drogheda.
He said they were on their way to the Special Criminal Court where Mr Robinson was charged with offences arising from an incident in Clontibret.
The witness said he did not want them to get out of their stuck car because someone might recognise them and start a melee.
Instead, he and some other people pushed the car up the hill out of the snow.
During questioning about a road accident he was involved in, Mr Corrigan said he had got blank invoice forms from a garage he had gone to get a quote to repair the car.
He said he had filled in the details himself but only after the owner had given him a price.
The witness said he had done this because there was no secretary to type out the information in the garage.
A subsequent trial, where Mr Corrigan was charged with obtaining money under false pretences, did not go ahead when the main prosecution witness, the driver of the lorry which had crashed into Mr Corrigan, failed to show up.
The Tribunal was told by the witness, Patrick Gallagher, that he was warned not to appear by a member of the IRA.
Mr Corrigan said he did not believe Mr Gallagher was intimidated.
He was asked why he told senior gardaí that Mr Gallagher was connected to the IRA exposing him to arrest and prosecution, Mr Corrigan said "I don't know why I did it" but later said he did because that was his information at the time.
Earlier, Mr Corrigan objected to questions about his finances being raised in public.
His counsel, Jim O'Callaghan, said counsel for the Tribunal, Justin Dillon, was "bordering towards unlawfulness" in his questions given decisions by the High and Supreme Courts relating to other Tribunals.
However, Judge Peter Smithwick dismissed the issue.
