Councillors named in Frank Dunlop's statement

Senator Don Lydon: Told the Fianna Fáil inquiry which followed Mr Frank Dunlop's initial evidence to the tribunal that he received…

Senator Don Lydon:Told the Fianna Fáil inquiry which followed Mr Frank Dunlop's initial evidence to the tribunal that he received two separate payments of £420 and £1,000 for election purposes. Supported a number of controversial rezonings but argued the schemes involved were good ones. Told The Irish Times in 1993 he had never been offered inducements beyond "a drink or a lunch".

Well-known in politics for his illiberal outbursts, he campaigned against the decriminalisation of homosexuality and claimed that the Supreme Court judges who upheld the appeal of the 14-year-old girl at the centre of the X case had "spat in the face of Christ".

A Dublin city councillor since 1985 and a senator since 1987, he works at St John of God Hospital and is senior tutor at the Department of Psychology at UCD.

Mr Liam Cosgrave:

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A Fine Gael inquiry found that he was unable to give "a detailed account" of the circumstances in which he received £3,500 from Mr Frank Dunlop between 1992 and 1999.

He described the inquiry as flawed and unfair, and rejected any suggestion that he received any payments in exchange for a vote, "or that there were any conditions attached to them whatsoever".

Mr Cosgrave, whose father and grandfather both served as Taoiseach, succeeded to his father's Dáil seat in Dun Laoghaire in 1981. He lost the seat in 1987 and two years later was elected to the Seanad, where he served until this year.

Mr Colm McGrath:

Elected as a Fianna Fáil councillor for the Clondalkin electoral area in 1985 and subsequently in 1991. He ran on the party ticket in the 1997 general election, causing outrage by issuing a circular attacking illegal immigrants "milking" the social welfare system. He was deselected by Fianna Fáil after admitting receiving contributions from the developers of the Liffey Valley Shopping Centre at Quarryvale.

He subsequently stood as an independent, winning a seat on the local authority in 1999. Gained only 487 first-preference votes in Dublin Mid West at last May's general election. Explaining his voting record on rezonings, he once said: "In Fianna Fáil we're generally pro-development . . . It is not good enough to wait 15 or 20 years for the planners to get it right."

Mr Tony Fox:

A Dundrum-based councillor since 1985 and former chairman of Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, he told the Fianna Fáil inquiry in 2000 that he never received any money from Mr Dunlop. Last May he was appointed by the former minister for the marine, Mr Frank Fahey, to the board of Dun Laoghaire Harbour Company.

Mr Cyril Gallagher:

Fianna Fáil councillor and former chairman of Fingal County Council, he was granted representation at the tribunal but died before he got the opportunity to give evidence. Asked once to justify his rezoning activity, he explained: "When the builders and farmers are doing well, the country is doing well." He also declared: "I have never put a boundary to the onward march of a nation and I never will."

Mr Jack Larkin:

Fianna Fáil councillor and close associate of disgraced former minister Mr Ray Burke, he supported the rezoning of Quarryvale and the controversial plan to develop a casino on the site of the former Phoenix Park racecourse. From Balbriggan in north Dublin, he died in 1998.