Unsafe phone used for fatal visit, judge told
A SENIOR RUC officer made as many as two trips a week from Armagh to Dundalk Garda station and arranged his last, fatal visit over an unsecured phone line, the Smithwick Tribunal heard yesterday.
Retired Garda superintendent Pat Tierney told the tribunal he had been concerned Supt Bob Buchanan also repeatedly used the same car to travel to the Republic in the months before he was killed in an IRA ambush.