I told the truth about Poolbeg submissions, says Gormley

AN EMBATTLED John Gormley last night strenuously rejected claims he told lies regarding the Poolbeg incinerator in a bitter war of words with one of his constituency rivals.

The row between Labour’s Ruairí Quinn and Green Party John Gormley followed a series of heated statements on who attended a meeting in Croke Park and made an oral submission against the proposed incinerator in their constituency of Dublin South East. The incinerator was granted planning permission by An Bord Pleanála on Monday.

Mr Quinn told Newstalk yesterday: “This man told lies in relation to my presence in Croke Park some months back when he we were in a taxi together and were photographed together... He will cite with crocodile tears in three or four months’ time that because of the compensation cost to the taxpayer he cannot instruct Dublin City Council not to proceed with the incinerator.”