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Sat 02 Feb 2009Auctioneers admit making €3.5m on land-deal profits
TWO AUCTIONEERS – one of whom resigned as a Fianna Fáil councillor last month and the second is former Co Offaly GAA football manager Richard Connor – have admitted in court to making €3.5 million secret profits from land deals in Co Offaly.
Such behaviour was “unconscionable and dishonest” and both men had admitted “dishonesty” on “a substantial scale” although those admissions had to be “wrung out of them”, Mr Justice Peter Kelly said in the High Court yesterday.
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