Flynn offered no favours in return for £50,000

PADRAIG FLYNN will tell the Mahon Tribunal he specifically advised Tom Gilmartin that he could do no favours for him in return for a payment of £50,000 (€63,500) the Sligo businessman made to then environment minister in 1989.

Mr Gilmartin’s statement to the tribunal contains the allegation that Mr Flynn specifically sought a “substantial donation” from him when he met the former minister in February, 1989, and complained to him that George Redmond and Liam Lawlor were behind a campaign to frustrate his attempts to develop Quarryvale.

Mr Gilmartin says Mr Flynn said very little except to suggest that a donation, which Mr Gilmartin understood would be for the Fianna Fáil party, might help “curb the activities of Mr Redmond and Mr Lawlor”.