Former junior minister Ivor Callely has been jailed for five months for fraudulently claiming mobile expenses while he was a senator after a judge ruled that his position at the time was an aggravating factor in the case.

Former junior minister Ivor Callely has been jailed for five months for fraudulently claiming mobile expenses at Leinster House while he was a senator.

A developer who was recently found not guilty of making corrupt payments to a Waterford councillor has hit the jackpot at the Goffs bloodstock sales.

WE don’t do corruption in this country.

The trial of a multimillionaire property developer accused of making corrupt payments to a politician is due to go ahead in July.

Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley has been confirmed as the main benefactor from the GAA-GPA backed gaelicboots.com website.

A property millionaire alleged to have made corrupt payments to a councillor told gardaí the councillor left the country in 2007 because he had “an affair with a young one” and not because of a Garda investigation, a court has heard.

I enjoyed reading about the conviction and sentencing of John Forsey Junior for accepting bribes in relation to a housing development in Co Waterford.

Former Fine Gael councilor Fred Forsey has been sentenced to six years with two suspended for taking bribes from a developer.

Had Fred Forsey not cheated on his wife, we would probably not know of his corruption It seems little has changed despite all the tribunals, writes Michael Clifford

Former Fine Gael town councillor Fred Forsey has been sentenced to six years for corruptly receiving payments from a property developer.

A former Fine Gael councillor convicted of receiving corrupt payments remained a free man yesterday after his sentencing hearing was adjourned until late June.

The sentencing of former Fine Gael Dungarvan town councillor Fred Forsey has been adjourned until next month.

A former Fine Gael councillor will be sentenced next week after being found guilty yesterday on six charges of receiving a total of €80,000 in corrupt payments from a property developer.

Jenny Forsey was not motivated by revenge, she said, when she blew the whistle on her estranged husband.

A former Fine Gael town councillor has been found guilty of corruptly accepting payments totalling €80,000 from a property developer in Waterford six years ago.

Evidence in the trial of a former Fine Gael politician accused of accepting corrupt payments had told a rather sordid tale of “jealousy, anger, and rage,” the ex-councillor’s lawyer said yesterday.

A former Fine Gael town councillor has told a corruption trial that the mother of his estranged wife told him she would “stab him to death” if he did not repay €10,000 he had borrowed from her daughter.

A loan agreement, dated Aug 2006 and signed by a former councillor accused of accepting corrupt payments and a developer, was not created until Jan 2007, according to gardaí.

A former Fine Gael councillor told gardaí he asked a property developer for a loan of €70,000 at a time when his marriage was breaking up, his business was failing and he was behind with his mortgage.

Hell hath no fury like a councillor’s wife scorned.

The wife of a former town councillor accused of receiving €80,000 in corrupt payments has denied in court that “revenge” was her motive for telling a TD and gardaí about her “suspicions” about her husband.

A Fine Gael TD went to the gardaí as a result of a conversation he had with the wife of a party colleague who is now charged with accepting corrupt payments totalling €80,000, a court heard yesterday.

A FORMER Fine Gael councillor and a classic-winning racehorse owner have been sent forward to the circuit court for trial on charges relating to alleged corrupt payments of €80,000.

A FORMER Co Waterford town councillor, who arrived in Ireland for a wedding over the weekend, was arrested and appeared in court yesterday on corruption charges.

Sports World owner Sports Direct International was on course to make payouts to thousands of UK staff today after raising profit forecasts for the second time this year.

THE owner and managing director of a hugely successful Dungarvan company is promising up to 240 new jobs if Waterford County Council agrees to rezone his lands on the outskirts of the town.

A LABOUR member of Dungarvan Town Council, who is set to become mayor next month, has claimed that when darkness falls all hell breaks loose on some of the housing estates.