A Fine Gael councillor named in the Mahon Report has claimed she is being used as a Quarryvale payments “scapegoat” while more senior officials facing “identical” questions are cleared of wrongdoing.

Are we acting like a bunch of lemmings, all running off the edge of the cliff just because we cannot think of anything else to do?

The Cabinet is to receive a report on the Mahon Tribunal’s recommendations which includes a consideration about an independent planning regulator for local authorities.

It is difficult to understand the soul-deep motivations of a society, or the principles that inform it, when a household charge can provoke a “national rally” while the confirmation that the most powerful political party in our recent history was a shameless cabal of crooks does little more than stir up the usual impotent outrage from the usual sources.

I have read all of the articles which you published in respect of the Mahon Report.

In the aftermath of the Mahon Report our politicians are still seeking to blame the wrong people for their failings.

I found it ironic to hear Labour Minister Joan Burton over the weekend saying that the basic rules of planning were contravened due to the corruption which permeated the various levels of the process.

HOW can we be expected to believe Micheál Martin can root out corruption in the Fianna Fáil party when he can’t even identify the ministers who, according to the Mahon Report, launched a “sustained and virulent attack” on the tribunal and questioned “the legality of its inquiries as well as the integrity of its members” when it was investigating Bertie Ahern in 2007 and 2008?

Fianna Fáil has not yet received any formal notification of Bertie Ahern's intention to leave the party.

The reaction to the seismic Mahon Report focussed on the villains of the piece — Ahern, Flynn, Lawlor, Burke and O’Callaghan — and their supporting cast.

MICHEÁL MARTIN is forging a new way forward for his party, but embers of old still burn from a few short years ago when he and others rushed forward to attack the Mahon Tribunal for its enquiries into Bertie Ahern’s mysterious £215,000.

The late Fianna Fáil TD Liam Lawlor had an “insatiable appetite for money”, and his methods of obtaining it from developers was “occasionally ingenious”, according to the Mahon Report.

Enda Kenny has insisted that Fine Gael was “100%” compliant with the law when paying him a top-up to his Dáil salary from public monies.