Dunlop: Ahern’s schoolmate paid me to lobby

FORMER Government press secretary Frank Dunlop alleged at the Mahon planning tribunal yesterday that a school associate of Taoiseach Bertie Ahern paid him £5,000 in cash to lobby councillors.

Dunlop: Ahern’s schoolmate paid me to lobby

Jeweller Robert White, who went to school with Mr Ahern and was a principal director of a company seeking to build 500 houses and a hotel at Swords, Co Dublin, denies any impropriety.

Mr White, who is due to give evidence later, has categorically rejected Mr Dunlop’s claim in a statement to the tribunal.

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