Morris tribunal:Former Garda superintendent Kevin Lennon told the Morris tribunal he stood over a report he had prepared profiling Frank McBrearty snr in response to a High Court affidavit made by the publican a decade ago claiming he was a target of harassment.
Mr Lennon said the report he prepared in response, and which formed the basis of a replying affidavit by Chief Supt Denis Fitzpatrick, was "factually correct".
The former superintendent, who was angered after the Morris tribunal found he had acted corruptly in an earlier module, said that in 1997 he felt "harassed and abused, threatened and intimidated" by Mr McBrearty.
The tribunal is examining allegations by Mr McBrearty that gardaí harassed his family after his son and nephew were wrongly identified as suspects during a botched investigation into the death of Richie Barron.
Mr McBrearty says this is the reason for more than 100 District Court summonses served against him, his business, his extended family and employees in 1997 and early 1998. The DPP withdrew all the charges in 2000.
Mr Lennon said the Barron investigation was not a factor and his concern was to enforce the liquor licensing laws.
He said his wife and children were afraid of Mr McBrearty, who had called to his home one weekend while he was absent and refused to leave until Ms Lennon called gardaí.
"Would you like any man to come into your home and bully your wife and your children when you're not there?" he asked the tribunal chairman.
"No, I'd hate it," Mr Justice Frederick Morris replied, "but if that happened to me, I must confess I'd bear a grudge against him. "
Mr Lennon said his own actions proved he did not carry a grudge, because he had refused to recommend charges of manslaughter or murder against Mr McBrearty's son.