Morris tribunal:Donegal publican Frank McBrearty snr has accused gardaí of phoning in hoax bomb warnings, setting up a virtually permanent traffic checkpoint near his business, and distributing defamatory leaflets accusing him of murder.
The 64-year-old publican was continuing his evidence outlining his claims that gardaí set out on a campaign of harassment against him and his family after they were wrongly arrested on suspicion of murdering cattle dealer Richie Barron, a hit-and-run victim.
And he said his licensed premises was entitled to be open when an undercover sergeant filmed drinks being served there in April 1997.
Former Sgt John White has said that he inspected the premises after closing time, and that Sgt Noeleen Griffin then filmed the shutters in the bar opening again after he left the nightclub.
"She videoed the bar. The clock that was going in the bar wasn't going, it was stopped at three o'clock or something," Mr McBrearty said.
Mr McBrearty said that in the summer of 1997, he had a meeting with Supt Kevin Lennon, who assured him he was not aware what was happening in Raphoe, and afterwards Sgt White was transferred to Letterkenny.
Shortly afterwards, a Garda memo was circulated limiting inspections of Mr McBrearty's premises to one per night.
Mr McBrearty snr said that inspections eased off after this happened.
And he said Sgt White stopped him and his daughter in May 1997 and told him his son should go to the Garda station and "admit to the murder of Richie Barron".
"That's when Maria went hysterical, she started crying, she was only 11," Mr McBrearty said.
But Mr White says he did not say this, and that it was he who was threatened by Mr McBrearty.
The publican said he became "sick", and he and his son could not go to his own business premises for two years, when regular Garda inspections began in January 1997, often several times a night.
"If we were away, it might ease off a bit," he said.
Mr McBrearty snr gave evidence for the second day as the tribunal begins its final module, dealing with allegations of Garda harassment made by the extended McBrearty family and with the effectiveness of the Garda Complaints Board in handling complaints by the McBrearty family and others between 1997 and 2001.
The majority of the complaints relate to summonses served against the Parting Glass night club, Frank McBrearty snr's licensed premises.
The tribunal has heard that 69 summonses were served over an 18-month period against Mr McBrearty snr, a licensee who had only five licensing convictions over the previous 20-year period.
The district court summonses were withdrawn in July 2000 on direction of the DPP.