Lawlor used jail time to get fit

LIAM LAWLOR used his time in Mountjoy prison earlier this year to get fit and do some paperwork, but still feels he should not have been there.

The former Fianna Fáil TD at the centre of the Flood Tribunal into planning matters also claims to have co-operated with the inquiry far more than the public have been led to believe. In a radio interview, Mr Lawlor described his seven day’s “national service” last January as a discipline. He spent a week in January and a further month from early February in the jail for failing to comply with tribunal orders.

“I worked out a lot in the gym every morning, I read a lot, dictated a lot of notes and did a lot of paperwork. I lost weight and came out very fit,” he said. “What was in my head was that there was a certain injustice in being there and then to get on and use the time productively, and that’s what I did,” he told RTÉ’s News at One.