Developer ‘paid councillor €20,000’

HOUSEBUILDER Joe Moran yesterday disclosed to the Mahon planning tribunal how he paid €20,000 in 2002 to Fine Gael county councillor Anne Devitt, who helped him get public road access to his lands.

Developer ‘paid councillor €20,000’

Now a member of Fingal Co Council, in the 1990s she was on the board of the Eastern Health Board which owned land adjoining Mr Moran’s property at Lissenhall, Swords, Co Dublin.

He is majority shareholder in Manor Park Homes, one of the largest house building companies in Dublin.

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