Frank McBrearty Jnr is an Irish politician and businessman, who has been a

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since 2009. The son of

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, McBrearty became known nationally as a result of the Morris Tribunal's ruling that police had tried to frame him for the 1996 murder of Richie Barron. McBrearty pursued the Irish state in a long-running legal battle to restore his good name. In 2005, he settled all his claims against the Irish state. McBrearty was in court in 2012, when a landmark judgement found in favour of him and his wife against

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(AIB).

Politics

McBrearty ran in the 2009 local elections for the Labour Party. He stood in the

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, and was elected to

. He was re-elected for the same area as an

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. In late May 2019 he was again elected, this time for the

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-Stanorlar local electoral area, and for the

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party, having joined that party two months earlier. But by the start of June he had resigned from the party and said he intended to sue it for

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, after claiming that he was "the victim of internal party bullying". He also threatened to "make the council unworkable" if he was "excluded from power-sharing". McBrearty has been accused of ''act(ing) like (a) thug...'' at a council meeting in Buncrana in which he allegedly and forcibly removed or stole a mobile device from another elected official. Gardai are investigating the incident, which McBrearty denies despite several witnesses. McBrearty has made reference to a phone being in the middle of the Atlantic.

References

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