Firm accuses council of misleading rezoning vote

AN offshore company under investigation by the Flood Tribunal accused Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown Council in 1998 of misleading its own councillors about a rezoning motion on lands it owned.

Jackson Way Properties, which owns around 106 acres of land in Carrickmines in south Dublin, also threatened the local authority with legal action after its efforts to have the land rezoned were narrowly defeated.

The tribunal is currently investigating allegations by the political lobbyist, Frank Dunlop, that he was given £25,000 by Jackson Way to bribe politicians.