Redmond ‘received corrupt payments from two builders’

The Planning Tribunal’s latest interim report has found that former council official George Redmond received corrupt payments from two property developers.

The report said Mr Redmond received a corrupt payment of £12,000 from Joseph Murphy Jnr of JMSE and three corrupt payments totalling between £16,000 and £20,000 from Michael Bailey of Bovale Developments in the late 1980s.

It also said that Mr Redmond, Mr Murphy, Mr Bailey and a fourth man named Frank Reynolds obstructed the work of the Planning Tribunal.

The report was compiled by Justice Fergus Flood, the former chairman of the Tribunal, before his retirement last year.

However, its publication was delayed pending the outcome of criminal proceedings against Mr Redmond.

The former assistant Dublin and city and county manager was jailed for a year in November after being convicted of receiving a £10,000 bribe from a Dublin businessman in relation to the sale of a right of way in Lucan in the late 1980s.

Yesterday, the Tribunal ruled that Mr Redmond was entitled to be released from prison to cross-examine witnesses who make allegations against him.