Greed made Lawlor ‘hopelessly compromised’ in public duties

The late Fianna Fáil TD Liam Lawlor had an “insatiable appetite for money”, and his methods of obtaining it from developers was “occasionally ingenious”, according to the Mahon Report.

It described how he “abused” his position as an elected representative “to a very significant degree” in order to produce a substantial personal income, often stored or gathered through “secret and devious means”.

His “frequent demands” for money in the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s, when he was a TD for Dublin West made him “hopelessly compromised in the disinterested performance of his public duties”.