CORK-BASED property developer Owen O’Callaghan can not account for a £10,000 payment made in connection with the Quarryvale project in west Dublin now under the spotlight, the Mahon Tribunal heard yesterday.

A SENIOR executive with Cork-based property developer Owen O’Callaghan’s company Riga Ltd told the Mahon Tribunal yesterday it was “quite normal” to sign cheques without knowing why they were being paid.

LOBBYIST Frank Dunlop made a swift disclosure to the Revenue Commissioners — and sent a cheque for more than £243,000 — because he feared the planning tribunal would carry out a full probe into his affairs in 1998, it emerged yesterday.

FORMER lobbyist Frank Dunlop was quizzed at the Mahon Tribunal yesterday on why he had lied in his evidence seven years ago over a payment of £40,000 to ex-Fianna Fáil TD Liam Lawlor.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern received more than £100,000 in connection with planning projects from Cork-based developer Owen O’Callaghan in the early 1990s, rival businessman Tom Gilmartin alleged at the Mahon Tribunal yesterday.

LABOUR TD Joan Burton believed “something improper” was going on between developers and some of her Dublin County Council colleagues in the early 1990s, she told the Mahon Tribunal yesterday.

POLITICAL lobbyist Frank Dunlop claims he paid the late Liam Lawlor £153,500 during a 10-year period, the Mahon planning tribunal heard yesterday.