FF senator expenses probe gets green light

A High Court judge has cleared the way for an investigation into the alleged duplication of expenses claims by Fianna Fáil senator Brian Ó Domhnaill.

FF senator expenses probe gets green light

Mr Justice Gerard Hogan yesterday dismissed on all grounds a challenge by Mr Ó Domhnaill to the Standards in Public Office Commission investigation concerning travel and subsistence claims made by him between 2006 and 2007, when he was a member of Donegal County Council.

The Commission was due to begin a public session concerning the expenses matter in June but that did not proceed after Mr O Donhnaill secured leave days earlier to bring a challenge.

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