Ex-FG member defends reputation

Anne Devitt, who has quit Fine Gael in the wake of the Mahon Report, has said she never did anything that had “impinged” on her duty to constitutents.

Ms Devitt, one of two party councillors criticised in the report over payments linked to developments, quit the party last night.

Mahon found her actions “entirely inappropriate”. It said she acted as a legal consultant to a property group with the promise and payment of £20,000 but she was also an elected Dublin councillor and on a health board.