Overview
- Jurors saw messages from Seán Finn to retired Supt Eamon O’Neill seeking help after a speeding stop in Bruff, with O’Neill asking for the stopping garda’s details.
- O’Neill forwarded Finn’s text to Garda Tom McGlinchey, whose replies and subsequent actions were shown through a thread presented in court.
- A video of McGlinchey’s GNBCI interview was played, in which he said O’Neill asked who was working in Bruff and requested that he make an inquiry on O’Neill’s behalf; he then contacted Bruff Garda Station.
- Retired GNBCI chief Walter O’Sullivan rejected claims the probe targeted O’Neill to save face and confirmed a senior garda was questioned under caution over texts but was not prosecuted.
- All five defendants plead not guilty to 39 counts tied to road-traffic matters from 2016 to 2019, and the trial continues before Judge Roderick Maguire at Limerick Circuit Court.