HIGHLY-PAID TDs and senators have racked up almost €2,000 in unpaid Dáil bar costs since the start of this year – with €1,378 of the debt owed by just one Oireachtas member.

Former Taoiseach John Bruton told his Fine Gael colleague Jim Higgins not to champion the cause of the McBrearty family, it was claimed today.

FINE GAEL TD John Deasy will not be prosecuted by the Office of Tobacco Control arising out of the smoking incident in the Dáil bar.

Former PR consultant Frank Dunlop has told the Flood Tribunal that former Fine Gael senator Liam Cosgrave specifically requested £2,000 in return for his vote on a rezoning motion in 1992.