Gilmore not embarrassed by wife’s sale of €525k site

LABOUR party leader Eamon Gilmore has said he is not embarrassed by recent revelations that his wife sold a site to the state for €525,000.

His wife, Carol Hanney, who is chief executive of Dún Laoghaire VEC, responded to a public advertisement seeking land for a new school in the village of Killimor, in east Galway back in 2007.

She initially agreed to sell the land back in 2003 for €140,000, but a decision was made at the time not to go ahead with the school.