Judge: 'Jury must decide if Redmond told the truth to gardaí'

The jury in George Redmond's corruption trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has been told that "the core issue" for the jurors is to decide whether he told the truth to gardaí or later under oath to the Flood Tribunal.

Judge Joseph Matthews said the prosecution claimed he told the truth to gardaí following his arrest in 1999 at Dublin Airport when he said he got £10,000 from the late Fianna Fáil councillor Mr Patrick Dunne and repeated that admission later his old friend Mr Brendan O'Brien, a retired tax inspector turned tax advisor.