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 heard yesterday about a businessman who believed he quit a property company in the mid-1990s only to find he was still listed as a director six years later.

CORK-BASED property developer Owen O’Callaghan is to be asked by the Mahon Tribunal if he gave in excess of £100,000 to candidates who were fighting just one general election.

A GARDA investigation ordered by former Environment Minister Michael Smith into alleged planning corruption in the Dublin area in the early 1990s drew a blank, the Mahon Tribunal heard yesterday.

COLLECTIONS of toys, bicycles and footballs littered across petite front gardens behind knee-high walls.

ENDA KENNY must be congratulated in what was a difficult period for Fine Gael.

The Mahon Tribunal has heard that former Fianna Fáil TD GV Wright failed to declare almost £3,000 in donations from a leading property firm to the party's inquiry into election funds.

GOVERNMENT deputy chief whip Billy Kelleher wants more drivers to get the road safety message - after he was caught speeding on his way to the Dáil.

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.

IRELAND is one of the bad boys of Europe. Again.

TWO former Fine Gael ministers have admitted they gave wrong information to an internal party inquiry established to examine payments to politicians three years ago.

PLANS for housing on land that two businessmen wanted rezoned were drawn up by an architect at the request of politician GV Wright, the planning tribunal heard yesterday.

POLITICIANS are not all the same. Not everyone is responsible for the cynicism and disillusion with which people view politics.

UNTIL this week, he’s never been much more than a set of initials, one of the many who forced themselves to accept Frank Dunlop’s largesse and a roundy face in parliamentary directories.

GV Wright said he did not contact the nurse whose leg was broken in four places in a collision involving the Fianna Fáil TD, because he was advised legally not to do so.

The Minister for Education Noel Dempsey says everybody who drives a car should behave and act responsibly on the road.

Fine Gael’s Austin Currie has announced his retirement from politics.