No diaries kept by Kelly

ONE of the Mahon Tribunal judges yesterday declared himself “puzzled” how the architect who designed the Liffey Valley shopping centre ran his business without keeping an office diary.

“I never used a diary to record business meetings,” Ambrose Kelly had testified. He told Judge Gerald Keys he would record his notes “on a sheet of paper”. He could not explain what happened to them afterwards.

The Ambrose Kelly Group was hired by developer Owen O’Callaghan to provide architectural services for the Quarryvale project in the early 1990s.