‘Slab’ Murphy ‘got €100k in State payments’

Prominent republican accused of failing to make any returns to Revenue despite agriculture grants

The trial of a prominent republican for alleged tax evasion at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin has heard that a man named Thomas Murphy, with an address in Co Louth, received over €100,000 in farming grants from the Department of Agriculture over a period of eight years.

It is the prosecution’s case that, although the accused, Thomas ‘Slab’ Murphy, received payments from the Department of Agriculture and also conducted significant dealings in relation to land and cattle, he failed to make any returns to Revenue.