Former Taoiseach Albert Reynolds today denied being a director of an offshore company which was used to buy rezoned land in north Dublin.

Former Taoiseach Albert Reynolds is to appear before the Planning Tribunal today to explain his role in a bid to buy north Dublin land through an offshore company.

A TEMPERATE and frugal lifestyle may explain the late Fianna Fáil councillor Cyril Gallagher’s substantial funds, the Mahon planning tribunal heard yesterday.

HOUSEBUILDER Joe Moran yesterday disclosed to the Mahon planning tribunal how he paid €20,000 in 2002 to Fine Gael county councillor Anne Devitt, who helped him get public road access to his lands.

Builder Joe Moran has told the Mahon Tribunal that he paid Fine Gael councillor Anne Devitt €20,000 four years ago in return for her help in relation to a planning application.

FORMER lobbyist Frank Dunlop has denied he’s protecting senior politicians and that he has evidence of corruption in tax designation schemes.

FORMER lobbyist Frank Dunlop has linked one of the country’s best known businessmen, Joe Moran, with allegations of planning corruption over the rezoning of lands near Swords, Co Dublin, in the early 1990s.

TRANSPORT Minister, Martin Cullen, has refused to reveal the estimated cost of a new metro service between Dublin city centre, the airport and Swords which is scheduled to be completed by 2012.

Construction group SIAC has announced operating profits up 39% to €12.3m in its results for the year ended December 31, 2003.

IT WAS another weekend of carnage on the nation’s roads but two families in the North had a miraculous escape yesterday when a milk truck smashed into their front gardens.

Gardaí appealed for witnesses today after a man in his 20s died in a crash in Dublin.