Mahon told Haughey link ruined developer’s plans

A PUBLIC fixation linking the late Charles J Haughey to the former Baldoyle Racecourse wrecked a developer’s ambition to build houses there, the Mahon Planning Tribunal heard yesterday.

But the story doing the rounds — and picked up by the media — wasn’t true, according to solicitor John Gore-Grimes, who acted for John Byrne.

The Kerry-born developer, who then owned the Baldoyle property, is associated with a number of major Dublin office block schemes having launched his building career in the London.