Dunlop ‘may have sought revenge’

A SOLICITOR has told the Planning Tribunal that political lobbyist Frank Dunlop may have brought his name into allegations about planning corruption “as an element of retribution.”

John Caldwell disagreed yesterday with several aspects of Mr Dunlop’s evidence about the planning history of lands owned by the solicitor and the tax exile businessman, Jim Kennedy, at Carrickmines in south Dublin.

He suggested an explanation for this was that Mr Dunlop had a motive for revenge over their prior dealings on another controversial development at Baldoyle on the other side of the city.