Redmond acquitted on bribe charge

George Redmond has been acquitted at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court of receiving a £10,000-punt bribe from a Fianna Fáil councillor in 1980, the jury are still deliberating on a second charge.

The jury found him not guilty of receiving the £10,000-punt bribe from a Fianna Fáil councillor "as a reward for showing favour to another" in relation to a compulsory purchase order on 167 acres of land at Buzzardstown and Coolmine, in north-west Dublin when he was an Assistant County Manager.