1945 Born in October 1945, Liam Lawlor grew up in Drimnagh and went on to attend Synge Street CBS. He was a talented hurler and went on to represent Dublin at senior level and played for Leinster in the Railway Cup.
1974 Having joined Fianna Fáil as a teenager, Lawlor stood as a candidate in Dublin County Council during the local elections. He was beaten by Brian Lenihan. In the meantime, Lawlor built up a successful refrigeration business, which brought him into contact with Larry Goodman.
1977 Lawlor was elected to the Dáil in the Fianna Fáil landslide victory under Jack Lynch at the age of 33, one of the youngest TDs to be elected that year.
1979 He secured a seat on Dublin County Council. He backed George Colley in the leadership heave of 1979, leaving him marginalised within Fianna Fáil.
1980 Lawlor became embroiled in the first of many planning controversies when Dublin County Council voted to rezone more than 100 acres of agricultural land near Lucan. Taoiseach Charles Haughey ordered councillors to rescind the rezoning when it emerged that Lawlor was a major shareholder.
1981 Lawlor lost his Dáil seat in the fallout of the rezoning controversy and the presence of a H-Block candidate in his constituency. During a turbulent political year, he won it back in February 1982 but lost it in the second election of that year. He didn't regain the seat for five years.
1985 Lawlor topped the poll in the local election and went on to play a major role in marshalling other councillors for rezoning and Section 4 votes
1987 Lawlor regained his Dáil seat. He was appointed chairman of a committee on commercial state-sponsored bodies, but resigned in 1989 after facing accusations of a conflict of interest in the privatisation of the Irish Sugar Company.
He was a director of a company owned by Larry Goodman, which was attempting to buy the firm.
1989 His activities came to the attention of a Garda investigation in 1989 following allegations from Tom Gilmartin over payments for rezoning. Gardaí, who also examine the TD's links with businessman Jim Kennedy, conclude that Lawlor "emerges from this inquiry with his reputation unscathed".
1990 He was one of the first Fianna Fáil backbenchers to speak out against the leadership style of then Taoiseach Charles Haughey.
A year later he lost his seat on Dublin City Council. In the next general election, he barely held on to his seat in a close race with Tomás Mac Giolla.
1993 Lawlor discharged a £30,000 liability in the 1993 tax amnesty, for dividends earned during his work for Lloyds insurers
1997 The Flood tribunal was established to investigate a range of planning matters and payments to politicians
2000 Frank Dunlop told the tribunal about a "Mr Big" – later identified as exchange for advice and assistance on planning matters. Lawlor admitted to receiving sums of money from lobbyist Frank Dunlop, but insists they were legitimate consultancy fees.
He resigned from Fianna Fáil after the party conducted an internal investigation. He continued to support the government. He did not stand in the 2002 general election.
2001 Lawlor is sentenced to a week in jail on contempt charges arising from his failure to co-operate with the Flood tribunal in January. He got out a week later and escaped media attention by leaving in the back of a gardener's van.
2002 In January he spent another week in prison after failing to co-operate with the tribunal. Just weeks later he was sentenced to a further month in Mountjoy. Within days, however, he was released temporarily to allow him to contribute to a Dáil debate, calling for his resignation. He said his non-compliance was "unintentional and non-malicious".
2005 Liam Lawlor killed in a car crash in Moscow