Businessman Ben Dunne and Fianna Fáil TD GV Wright are due before the Mahon Tribunal this morning to answer questions in relation to the rezoning of land near Dublin Airport.

A DUBLIN businessman said yesterday it was “coincidence” that he and two associates failed to tell the Mahon Planning Tribunal about Ciaran Haughey’s involvement in their airfreight warehousing project.

FINANCE Minister Brian Cowen yesterday defended his backing for a commercial enterprise near Dublin Airport headed by a businessman from a Fianna Fáil family.

IRISH TIMES editor Geraldine Kennedy and the paper’s public affairs correspondent Colm Keena are to appear before the Mahon Planning Tribunal this morning over their leak of payments to Taoiseach Bertie Ahern.

AER Rianta suspected corruption was behind some Dublin County Council rezoning decisions in the 1990s, former general manager Brian Byrne told the Mahon Planning Tribunal yesterday.

The helicopter company owned by the son of the late Taoiseach Charles Haughey is on the latest list of tax defaulters published by the Revenue Commission.

FORMER supermarket boss Ben Dunne — who admitted giving the late Taoiseach Charles J Haughey up to £2 million — is due to give evidence to the Mahon Tribunal now investigating the rezoning of land near Dublin Airport.

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

Former Taoiseach Charles Haughey has departed on his final journey to St Fintan's Cemetery in the Sutton area of north Dublin.

THE helicopter hire business part-owned by Ciaran Haughey lost close to €230,000 last year, according to recently filed accounts.