Dunlop is accused of ‘hallucinating’ payments

FORMER lobbyist Frank Dunlop was accused at the Mahon Planning Tribunal yesterday of hallucinating when alleging he paid Fianna Fáil councillor Tony Fox £2,000 to vote for a south Dublin housing development in the 1990s.

Mr Fox, a current member and former vice-chairman of Dun Laoghaire / Rathdown County Council, later in evidence rejected Mr Dunlop’s allegation as “absolutely untrue”.

The tribunal is investigating a series of unexplained cash payments amounting to £160,000 made by Monarch Properties development company between 1991 and 1996 in connection with its 236-acre Cherrywood housing project.