Redmond guilty after £1m bribes

GEORGE REDMOND last night spent his first night in jail after becoming the first public official to have been convicted for corruption in the State.

The former Dublin assistant county and city manager received as much as 1.3 million bribes from land developers during decades of being on the take from developers in return for planning favours.

The historic verdict was the first criminal conviction secured against a person against whom allegations of corruption were made at any of the raft of State tribunals that have been held over the past decade.