Former lobbyist Frank Dunlop has claimed that Cork developer Owen O’Callaghan was not aware of bribes paid to councillors for rezoning land at Quarryvale, which later became Liffey Valley Shopping Centre.

Gordon Elliott’s Roi Du Mee toyed with the opposition on his way to landing the featured John Meagher Memorial Chase at Thurles yesterday.

Had Fred Forsey not cheated on his wife, we would probably not know of his corruption It seems little has changed despite all the tribunals, writes Michael Clifford

Fine Gael TD Olivia Mitchell has been exonerated by a party disciplinary committee over the Mahon Tribunal and declared a member who remained in “high standing”.

Maurice Fitzgerald’s letter about the Labour Party (Apr 18) is an outrageous falsehood.

Fine Gael has yet to decide on the fate of TD Olivia Mitchell, ministers have indicated.

Since the publication of the Mahon Tribunal report, there has been much breast beating about corruption. Politicians have lined up to decry how planning was debased by corrupt councillors.

Two more Fianna Fáil members criticised in the damning Mahon Tribunal report resigned from the party yesterday ahead of a motion to expel them later this week.

Fifteen years after the longest running inquiry into political corruption in Ireland was established, its final findings have been published.

One of the country’s leading property developers, Owen O’Callaghan was “aware of and actively engaged in” facilitating corrupt payments of almost £120,000 to politicians over a three-year period in the early 1990s, according to the Mahon Tribunal.

Many people in the upper echelons of Fianna Fáil, including then taoiseach Albert Reynolds, were aware of a £50,000 donation to former minister Pádraig Flynn which was never put in Fianna Fáil’s coffers.

Developer Tom Gilmartin was a chief tribunal witness who was granted immunity from prosecution and revealed demands of corrupt payments from senior Fianna Fáil figures to facilitate the building of his retail park in Dublin.

In any movie involving dodgy payments to politicians, you need a go-between, a “bag man”. Frank Dunlop came right out of central casting.

I NOTE the publication today of the Mahon Tribunal final report which are not the findings of a court of law.

Former minister Pádraig Flynn and Cork developer Owen O’Callaghan could face a Garda investigation after the Mahon Tribunal found they had received or made corrupt payments.

Senior gardaí failed to properly investigate dramatic allegations of corruption and bribery involving politicians and senior officials, the Mahon Tribunal found.

The development of the Liffey Valley shopping centre at Quarryvale in west Dublin is one of the most controversial in the county’s history.

A notorious appearance on 'The Late Late Show' was the beginning of the end for Padraig Flynn.

Developer Owen O’Callaghan did claim to have “taken care of” ex-Taoiseach Bertie Ahern in return for a promised favour, the Mahon tribunal has found.

Fifteen years after the country's longest running inquiry into political corruption in Ireland was established its final findings have been published.

The final report from the Mahon tribunal published today has found former European Commissioner Padraig Flynn to have "wrongfully and corruptly" sought money from developer Tom Gilmartin.

QUARRYVALE, trained by Jimmy Mangan and partnered by his son, Patrick, ran her rivals ragged in the Tote Placepot Races 1 To 6 Chase at Thurles yesterday.

MICHAEL CLIFFORD’S article (May 30) on Balgaddy contains a number of references to my father, Tom Gilmartin, which are mistaken.

THE dual point-to-point winner Fernhurst Lad battled dourly through very testing conditions to land the Demense Maiden Hurdle at Clonmel yesterday.

A €500 million expansion at Dublin’s Liffey Valley Shopping Centre is on the cards — and will be built once planning permission is granted, irrespective of the recession.

Businessman Owen O'Callaghan is one of a group of individuals and firms that today secured leave from the High Court to challenge the Mahon Tribunal's refusal to furnish them with any draft findings that relate to them contained in the tribunal of inquiry's report.

The route of the planned new Luas through west Dublin was unveiled today with tram lines running from Trinity College in the city centre to Lucan.

A Cork property developer has branded as a “complete fiction” the claim that he once handed IR£150,000 to the former Taoiseach Albert Reynolds.

FORMER taoiseach Bertie Ahern insisted he had never taken bribes as his role in plans for a national stadium came under the spotlight of the Mahon inquiry.

Former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern returns to the witness box at the Mahon Tribunal this morning.

FORMER taoiseach Albert Reynolds wanted to give £75 million in lottery funds to a national stadium proposed by Cork developer Owen O’Callaghan in 1992, as long as the then finance minister Bertie Ahern agreed.

PROPERTY developer Owen O’Callaghan recalled the disaster that faced his massive building project for land in Co Dublin after local election results 17 years ago.

PROPERTY developer Owen O’Callaghan yesterday denied that his “doodling” on accounting documents linked £80,000 he paid to lobbyist Frank Dunlop to local elections and a key Dublin County Council vote in favour of a major planning project.

CORK businessman Owen O’Callaghan has denied he leaked information about the financial difficulties of another developer, Tom Gilmartin, to two newspapers in the early 1990s.

OWEN O’CALLAGHAN did not pay £30,000 to Bertie Ahern in connection with planning, an associate of the Cork developer told the Mahon tribunal.

CLAIMS by property developer Owen O’Callaghan that he had never met political lobbyist Frank Dunlop before February 1991 were undermined by evidence at the Mahon Tribunal yesterday.

CORK property developer Owen O’Callaghan has claimed he is unable to recall the purpose of two meetings he held with former Taoiseach Albert Reynolds in 1990.

CORK businessman Owen O’Callaghan has described an allegation that he paid £50,000 to former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern for assistance on a property development in west Dublin as “absolute and total rubbish”.

CORK developer Owen O’Callaghan admitted yesterday he had failed to inform gardaí about his knowledge of planning corruption, despite being aware of allegations of bribery against three politicians, including the late Liam Lawlor.

A LETTER that arrived from Irish Life & Permanent in the Mahon Tribunal on March 5 was to prove pivotal in the inquiry’s investigation of Bertie Ahern’s finances and one that probably ultimately brought a premature end to his long tenure as taoiseach.

A PROPERTY developer has rejected any suggestion that his company tried to conceal political donations to Liam Lawlor by describing payments to the late TD as consultancy fees.

BUSINESSMAN Joe Burke, an associate of Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, yesterday flatly rejected developer Tom Gilmartin’s allegations that he asked for IR£500,000 in connection with the Quarryvale development in 1990.

ONE of the Mahon Tribunal judges yesterday declared himself “puzzled” how the architect who designed the Liffey Valley shopping centre ran his business without keeping an office diary.

TOM Gilmartin’s aim to transform the Quarryvale site into a major retail development on the fringes of Dublin was described to the Mahon Tribunal yesterday as over-ambitious given the country’s economic state in the late 1980s.