FF politician rejects cocaine allegations

A FIANNA FÁIL politician yesterday firmly rejected allegations he was caught snorting cocaine.

Dublin councillor Liam Kelly said he was being subjected to a serious extortion scam and that he had informed the gardaí.

Mr Kelly, a councillor in central Dublin, said that photographs of him, published in two Sunday newspapers, were staged by his extortionists. It was claimed the pictures showed Mr Kelly snorting a white powder and that he was being plunged into “a cocaine blackmail storm”.