Huge sums lodged each year since early ’60s

FORMER assistant Dublin city and county manager George Redmond lodged sums of money equivalent to the value of “a substantial house” each year since the early 1960s to his bank accounts, according to the Planning Tribunal.

The inquiry’s Third Interim Report published yesterday claimed similar sums accumulated by the former council official in the period 1981-’98 could not be explained by his salary or interest earned on savings.

The tribunal’s former chairman, Mr Justice Feargus Flood, said the investigation into Mr Redmond’s financial affairs had established that he was regularly lodging sums to various bank accounts which were multiples of his “relatively modest salary”.