Kildare car dealer to be sentenced over price-fixing

A motor company and its director will be sentenced next month by the Central Criminal Court for fixing car prices as a member of a cartel, in breach of the Competition Acts.

Patrick Duffy (aged 52) is a co-director of Duffy Motors Limited which trades as PG Duffy and Sons at Naas Road, Newbridge, County Kildare. Mr Duffy and the company pleaded guilty to entering into and implementing agreements with other Leinster car dealers to fix prices of Citroen vehicles.