Redmond faces more corruption charges

GEORGE REDMOND, who will spend the next year behind bars for accepting a bribe, faces two more corruption charges at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court next year.

The "sword of Damocles" the phrase the retired council official once used to describe payments he had received for giving planning advice finally fell on the 79-year-old pensioner yesterday when he was returned to Cloverhill Prison to serve out his sentence.

But Redmond's court appearances are far from over as he is still facing two more charges of corruption over an alleged £10,000 payment he received in relation to a compulsory purchase order on land at Buzzardstown, Co Dublin, in the 1980s. The case is due to come before the courts in early 2004.