MAHON Tribunal lawyers yesterday expressed surprise that developer Owen O’Callaghan failed to ask Frank Dunlop if he had made paid bribes on his behalf after the political lobbyist admitted his role in planning corruption.

SENIOR Allied Irish Bank manager Michael O’Farrell told the Mahon Tribunal yesterday he had no recollection of Cork-based developer Owen O’Callaghan announcing at a board meeting that he had it from “the horse’s mouth” a rival shopping centre would get no tax breaks.

IAN PAISLEY Jnr had to resign this week as a junior minister in the Northern Executive headed by his father.

The Mahon Tribunal has been attacked by the Taoiseach's legal team who claim that every day seems to yield another intrusive inquiry.

IN hurricane season, you track the storm as it moves on. The place that was devastated yesterday is becalmed today. Some place further up the line is now bearing the brunt of its fury.

Sean McCárthaigh

THE theory of six degrees of separation states that any two people in the world can be linked through only six moves of mutual connection.

A FORMER Fianna Fáil councillor who met the political lobbyist, Frank Dunlop the day before an important rezoning motion was taken by Dublin County Council claims there was no connection between the two events.

DUBLINER Ben Dunne hopes to finish off his apprenticeship in style when he boxes his final four-rounder against Eric Trujillo, a reigning Golden Gloves champion from Colorado, at Sam’s Town Casino in Las Vegas tomorrow night.