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Fri 04 Apr 2003Failure to give Carthy cigarettes criticised
THE BARR TRIBUNAL: The failure of gardaí to provide John Carthy with cigarettes during the Abbeylara siege was criticised by Mr Carthy's psychiatrist, Dr David Shanley, at the Barr Tribunal in Dublin yesterday.
Dr Shanley was also critical of a Garda decision not to allow Mr Carthy's sister, Marie, to talk to her brother, and said media coverage of the siege may have heightened Mr Carthy's anxiety.
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