Councillors keep the pressure on Allen

Serious questions remain to be answered about Fianna Fáil’s Lorcan Allen and the bogus letter affair, county councillors said yesterday.

Wexford County councillors reiterated calls for Mr Allen’s resignation, despite action from FF, and called for an investigation into who else was involved in distributing 2,500 letters, featuring the forged signature of Taoiseach Bertie Ahern.

Mr Allen, a former junior minister and sitting Wexford County Council member, was suspended from the party for a year late on Thursday night.