Fine Gael TD Olivia Mitchell has been exonerated by a party disciplinary committee over the Mahon Tribunal and declared a member who remained in “high standing”.

Olivia Mitchell is the only person in the Dáil against whom adverse findings were made by Mahon. While she was not corrupt, the system was, writes Michael Clifford

Fine Gael has denied excluding party TD Olivia Mitchell from its ard fheis following criticism in the Mahon Tribunal of “inappropriate” payments she received.

Former Fine Gael Councillor Anne Devitt said today that she wants to stand for the party in future local elections.

Two more Fianna Fáil members criticised in the damning Mahon Tribunal report resigned from the party yesterday ahead of a motion to expel them later this week.

Anne Devitt, who has quit Fine Gael in the wake of the Mahon Report, has said she never did anything that had “impinged” on her duty to constitutents.

The Mahon Report fallout claimed its first Fine Gael casualty after a party councillor resigned last night.

Fine Gael Councillor Anne Devitt has resigned from the party.

Fianna Fáil have confirmed Bertie Ahern has resigned from the party in a letter received this morning.

Health Minister James Reilly, Fine Gael Cllr Anne Devitt and others have consented to judgment orders for €1.9m being made against them at the Commercial Court under a settlement of proceedings over an alleged contract to buy a nursing home.

TOP horse racing jockey Jamie Spencer has been pulled-up by the taxman and has made a €102,855 settlement with the Revenue Commissioners.

A champion jockey, a Fine Gael councillor and a former lap-dancing club owner were tonight named in the Revenue’s latest list of tax dodgers.

A WOMAN whose six-year-old son suffered from severe cerebral palsy after a premature birth was awarded €1.575 million in an approved settlement in the High Court yesterday.

Former political lobbyist Frank Dunlop has begin giving evidence to the latest module of the Mahon Tribunal into alleged planning corruption in Dublin.

HOUSEBUILDER Joe Moran yesterday disclosed to the Mahon planning tribunal how he paid €20,000 in 2002 to Fine Gael county councillor Anne Devitt, who helped him get public road access to his lands.

Builder Joe Moran has told the Mahon Tribunal that he paid Fine Gael councillor Anne Devitt €20,000 four years ago in return for her help in relation to a planning application.

Plans to build the world’s largest theme park complex in Dublin were shelved tonight after councillors rejected a presentation from the developers.

THE Flood Tribunal's spotlight is focusing on around 100 councillors involved in planning decisions following its damning verdict on Ray Burke's corrupt practices.