Developer sought allies in corridors of power

Former FF ministers bar one dispute Gilmartin meeting, Harry McGee reports.

Tom Gilmartin is a big man with a direct manner. He still has his Sligo accent after 40 years of living in England, and a booming bass profundo voice. He wouldn’t exactly strike you as a man you would easily forget.

“I seem to have some problem with being invisible and being some kind of ghost that turns up,” he says.