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New PSNI evidence before Smithwick Tribunal

The Smithwick Tribunal has gone into closed session after it was announced that the PSNI has significant new and current intelligence relating to garda collusion.

News • 19 Sep 12

Corrigan denies he failed to pass on information

Former Det Sgt Owen Corrigan has denied to the Smithwick Tribunal he had information that could have saved an RUC informer's life but failed to pass it on.

News • 01 Aug 12

PSNI kept crucial intelligence from Smithwick

The Smithwick Tribunal has heard that senior officers in the PSNI made a deliberate decision not to release crucial new intelligence to it for several years regarding garda involvement in the murder of two RUC officers.

News • 25 Jul 12

Corrigan did not pass on IRA ambush information

A former detective sergeant has denied he betrayed his oath and his colleagues but acknowledged that he failed to pass on information about an IRA ambush in which two RUC officers were killed.

News • 18 Jul 12

Corrigan denies making up conspiracy at Smithwick

A former detective sergeant has denied playing the "green card" at the Smithwick Tribunal by accusing the British authorities of conspiring to prove garda collusion with the IRA.

News • 10 Jul 12

Owen Corrigan begins evidence at Smithwick

The former detective sergeant who is one of the three former officers at the centre of the Smithwick Tribunal has started to give evidence.

News • 08 Jun 12

Briefing notes to former British PM Margaret Thatcher

Smithwick - Thatcher warned over garda mole claims

Former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher and her then secretary of state for Northern Ireland, Tom King, were warned that speculating about a garda mole being involved in the killing of two senior RUC officers would be "playing the terrorists game" the Smithwick Tribunal heard today.

News • 15 May 12

Forensic expert disputes Warrenpoint evidence

A retired garda forensic expert has disputed evidence given to the Smithwick Tribunal that the sites where the IRA triggered two huge bombs at Warrenpoint killing 18 soldiers were "obliterated", destroying crucial evidence.

News • 30 Mar 12

Smithwick Tribunal criticises gardaí and PSNI

The gardaí and the PSNI have been criticised at the Smithwick Tribunal for failing to disclose investigations into allegations of garda collusion with the IRA in Donegal in 1991.

News • 29 Mar 12

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