Ex-ABP chief approved works for son of his FG senator uncle

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  1. Remember when some lad was trying get ontheditch banned as a news source from here?

    They must have known what was coming.

  2. I’ve read this a couple of times and don’t see what actually was wrong or illegal to what was done. Were rules broken?

  3. >The previous owner of the site in question, Philip O’Connor, sold it to Hyde’s cousin John Paul Coghlan after a failed legal challenge against an earlier ABP decision to refuse O’Connor planning permission. ABP obtained a judgment mortgage against O’Connor for legal costs incurred in the challenge.

    He denied planning permission to the previous owner and made them pay for ABPs court fees and then once it had been sold to the son of his uncle who is a fine gael senator he gave them planning permission.

    Despite ABP code of conduct stating that they “shall not knowingly deal with a file or other matter or participate in determining a case… concerning persons well known on a personal basis to him/her”, according to the organisation’s code of conduct.”

  4. Would be interesting to hear what the previous owner of the land Mr O’Connor think. At a glance this story sounds like the Davy’s story in some way.

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