BEN DUNNE and Michael Lowry sought to double the rent paid by the state for a property owned by Mr Dunne in a deal that would have doubled the value of the premises while leaving the taxpayer more than €3 million out of pocket.

Estate agent DTZ Sherry FitzGerald has announced a number of board appointments. Dublin-based associate directors Alain Doyle, Michele Fallon and Laura Somers have been appointed directors of the commercial arm of the Sherry FitzGerald Group.

FORMER minister Michael Lowry tried to get a son of former Fine Gael Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald to lean on an employee to sanction a rent increase on a property owned by Ben Dunne, the Moriarty Tribunal heard.

MICHAEL LOWRY asked the son of former Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald to intervene on behalf of Ben Dunne in rent negotiations on a building in Dublin’s north inner city, the Moriarty Tribunal heard yesterday.