Gilmartin claims deputy warned him he was ‘being shafted’

TOM GILMARTIN claims he was secretly warned by a Fianna Fáil TD that he was being “shafted” in his plans for retail centres at Bachelors Walk and Quarryvale.

Mr Gilmartin told the Mahon Tribunal the late deputy Sean Walsh approached him in a corridor in Leinster House as he left a meeting with government ministers on February 1, 1989 and gave him the names of about eight county council members he said would be involved in the material contravention of the county development plan he needed to get land rezoned for Quarryvale.

Mr Gilmartin said he was walking from the meeting when he heard a man shouting behind him. “When I turned this small, stoutish, red-faced man was beckoning me to come back,” Mr Gilmartin said.