Revellers at Indiependence had their night brought to an abrupt end last night when the Gardaí turned up to pull the plug on a DJ set that had run overtime.

The Menu has enjoyed wonderfully uplifting repasts in The Stuffed Olive Café, in Bantry, so was saddened when it closed last year.

TOM Gilmartin’s aim to transform the Quarryvale site into a major retail development on the fringes of Dublin was described to the Mahon Tribunal yesterday as over-ambitious given the country’s economic state in the late 1980s.

RETIRED senior banker Eddie Kay yesterday rounded on businessman Tom Gilmartin for suggesting he was “suddenly moved” from AIB’s corporate banking division for exposing payments to lobbyist Frank Dunlop.

PROPERTY developer Owen O’Callaghan probably gave an innocuous explanation when asked about a IR£10,000 political donation to Dublin county councillor Colm McGrath (FF) in October 1991, the Mahon Tribunal heard yesterday.

AIB Bank took a hard line against businessman Tom Gilmartin after it lost confidence in his ability to bring the Quarryvale project in west Dublin to fruition, the Mahon Tribunal heard yesterday.

BUSINESSMAN Tom Gilmartin assured senior AIB bankers he had high-level Fianna Fáil government contacts when he successfully applied for a IR£8.5 million short-term loan to get his ambitious west Dublin Quarryvale project under way, the tribunal heard yesterday.

AIB wanted Cork-based businessman Owen O’Callaghan on board the Quarryvale project in west Dublin in 1992 to protect its investment, it was claimed at the Mahon Tribunal yesterday.