Former senator and county councillor Don Lydon has been discharged from his corruption trial following legal discussions.

Former senator and county councillor Don Lydon has been discharged from his corruption trial following legal discussions.

A former political lobbyist has told Dublin Circuit Criminal Court that he made cash payments to county councillors to secure their votes for the rezoning of land.

Fianna Fáil will not take any action against Albert Reynolds, despite the Mahon Tribunal making adverse findings against him.

Joan Burton, the social protection minister, has raised questions about Government members interacting with individuals criticised by tribunals following the appearance of Enda Kenny at a public event with businessman Denis O’Brien.

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.

Two more members of Fianna Fáil are resigning from the party before motions to expel them are taken.

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

Former EU Commissioner Padraig Flynn has today resigned from Fianna Fáil, following the findings of the Mahon Tribunal.

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

Bertie Ahern faces a humiliating political end – expulsion from the party he once led along with corrupt former representatives Padraig Flynn and three ex-councillors.

Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin is to move next week to expel former taoiseach Bertie Ahern from the party following the damning Mahon Tribunal report.

In any movie involving dodgy payments to politicians, you need a go-between, a “bag man”. Frank Dunlop came right out of central casting.

The Mahon Tribunal has withheld publication of one section of its groundbreaking report on planning corruption as several councillors and a businessman are facing an upcoming criminal trial on related matters.

Below is the full text of a statement from Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin tonight:

A former Fianna Fáil councillor accused of accepting money to vote for rezoning of lands in Carrickmines in Dublin in the 1990s was today remanded on continuing bail in his absence due to poor health.

A former councillor charged with accepting money to vote for rezoning of lands in Carrickmines in Dublin in the 1990's, was remanded on bail in his absence today after a court heard he is in hospital.

Businessman Jim Kennedy, who is accused of numerous counts of corrupt payments to politicians, was served with a book of evidence today and sent forward for trial before a judge and jury.

BUSINESSMAN Jim Kennedy, who was last week charged with numerous counts of corrupt payments to politicians, was remanded on continuing bail when he appeared at Cloverhill District Court.

FORMER Fine Gael TD Liam Cosgrave Jnr was arrested and brought before court charged with receiving illegal payments linked to the controversial Carrickmines development.

A former Fine Gael politician appeared at the Dublin District Court this afternoon to face charges of taking corrupt payments in relation to rezoning of lands in Carrickmines in Dublin in the 1990's.

Businessman Jim Kennedy, who is charged with making corrupt payments to politicians, has taken up bail.

FOUR former Fianna Fáil councillors and businessman Jim Kennedy are to face a criminal trial on charges of planning corruption related to the rezoning of lands in Carrickmines, Co Dublin, during the 1990s.

BUSINESSMAN and tax exile Jim Kennedy is to face 16 charges of making corrupt payments to politicians during the 1990s in return for their votes to rezone lands owned by one of his companies, Jackson Way Properties, at Carrickmines in south Dublin.

Four former Fianna Fáil politicians and a Gibraltar-based businessman tonight appeared in court in connection with a multimillion-euro land deal alleged to be corrupt.

A FORMER Fianna Fáil senator was still using his Dublin home for personal correspondence this summer and not the Donegal house he used to claim mileage from.

IRISH Nationwide Building Society has launched an investigation into revelations its former chief executive Michael Fingleton fast-tracked loans to Fianna Fáil politicians and European Commissioner Charlie McCreevy.

FORMER government press secretary Frank Dunlop has been given 18 months in prison and fined €30,000 for making corrupt payments to politicians over the rezoning of land at Carrickmines in south Dublin during the 1990s.

Former Government press secretary Frank Dunlop was today jailed for 18 months and fined €30,000 for corruption after bribing councillors to rezone land around Dublin for lucrative development deals.

Former Government press secretary Frank Dunlop will be sentenced today for bribing councillors to rezone land for development.

Former Government Press Secretary and lobbyist Frank Dunlop will be sentenced next week after detailed accounts of his bribes to county councillors were given at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Former Government press secretary Frank Dunlop will be sentenced today for five counts of corruption.

Former Government press secretary and lobbyist Frank Dunlop has pleaded guilty to bribing Dublin County Councillors to vote in favour of a land deal in the 90s.

The Labour Party is celebrating Seanad success this morning after picking up a new seat in the labour panel election.

FIANNA FÁIL Senator Don Lydon yesterday denounced, as “filth” allegations linking him to bribery in Dublin County Council.

Planning corruption in the 1980s and 1990s has left hundreds of thousands of victims in its wake, it was claimed today.

FIANNA FÁIL will not consider taking any action against the failure of TD GV Wright and Senator Don Lydon to disclose hefty donations to an internal party inquiry in the 1990s until after the planning tribunal has concluded.

AT the best of times, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern’s use of the English language can be perplexing.

FIANNA FÁIL will not consider taking any action against the failure of TD GV Wright and Senator Don Lydon to disclose hefty donations to an internal party inquiry in the 1990s until after the planning tribunal has concluded.

The Taoiseach was today challenged to take action against a TD and senator under the spotlight of the Mahon Tribunal into planning corruption.

Former political lobbyist Frank Dunlop has told the Mahon Tribunal that he cannot explain discrepancies in his evidence about the alleged bribery of Dublin county councillors in the early 1990s.

A FIANNA FÁIL senator is due to be named today as one of a number of politicians who accepted an alleged bribe in return for voting in favour of a controversial rezoning issue.

THE late Liam Lawlor has been placed at the heart of planning corruption in Dublin after the Mahon Tribunal heard yesterday that he was paid at least £153,000 in bribes by Frank Dunlop to support the controversial Quarryvale development in west Dublin.

THE late Liam Lawlor has been placed at the heart of planning corruption in Dublin after the Mahon Tribunal heard yesterday that he was paid at least £153,000 in bribes by Frank Dunlop to support the controversial Quarryvale development in west Dublin.