A tribunal judge has clashed with Bertie Ahern during his evidence at the Mahon Tribunal today.

A son of the former Fianna Fáil TD Liam Lawlor today said the apologies printed in some Sunday newspapers did not replace the gut-wrenching aspects of last week’s inaccurate reports of the death.

THE eldest son of Liam Lawlor criticised the media for turning his father into “a figure of hate” in a moving eulogy at his father’s funeral mass in Lucan yesterday.

The funeral of former Fianna Fáil TD Liam Lawlor, who died in a car crash in Moscow, is to take place tomorrow.

THE son of former Fianna Fáil TD Liam Lawlor has described inaccurate newspaper reports about the circumstances of his father’s death as “a shot at the open wound of his family”.

The son of disgraced former Fianna Fáil TD Liam Lawlor today described the newspaper coverage of his father’s death as a shot at the open wound of the family’s grief.

The Government was urged to introduce a press complaints body tonight as a Sunday newspaper publicly apologised to the family of former TD Liam Lawlor over coverage of his death.