Ex-Taoiseach told TD 'don't champion McBrearty case'

Former Taoiseach John Bruton told his Fine Gael colleague Jim Higgins not to champion the cause of the McBrearty family, it was claimed today.

At a meeting in the Dáil bar on March 7 2000, Mr Higgins told Frank McBrearty and his son Frank Junior that he had been warned by his party leader to lay off.