FRANK DUNLOP has stood over claims that he paid £5,000 to Liam Cosgrave just before the former Fine Gael TD attended a funeral in Blackrock, Co Dublin, despite the fact that the tribunal has been unable to establish any evidence of such a service in the church on that date.

EVIDENCE heard at the Flood Tribunal yesterday suggests that former Fine Gael TD Liam Cosgrave may have received up to £19,000 in seven separate payments from Frank Dunlop.