Harney’s memory clouded on meetings with landowner

EFFORTS by Mary Harney to banish smog from Dublin in the late 1980s weren’t a total success.

The former junior environment minister admitted yesterday that her memory remained clouded about the details of meetings she held with a landowner from her own constituency just a few years later.

Fortunately for the Tánaiste, she was one of the few politicians to meet Chris Jones in the early 1990s who was not accused of taking bribes from agents acting for the wealthy farmer-turned-businessman.