Dáil pays tributes to ‘controversial but good guy’ Liam Lawlor

THE late Liam Lawlor was “controversial but a good guy”, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern said yesterday.

Mr Ahern was leading the expressions of sympathy to the Lawlor family on the death of the former Fianna Fáil TD, who was killed in a car crash during a business trip to Moscow in October.

The family’s grief was exacerbated by a series of newspaper reports which erroneously claimed that Mr Lawlor had been in the company of a teenage prostitute at the time of his death. The woman was, in fact, a 32-year-old legal secretary and translator who frequently worked for Mr Lawlor. The papers involved subsequently apologised.