Lowry denies libel report

THE Transport Minister, Mr Lowry, said reports that he had been offered a substantial libel settlement by RTE were "without foundation…

THE Transport Minister, Mr Lowry, said reports that he had been offered a substantial libel settlement by RTE were "without foundation".

The Fianna Fail spokesman, Mr Seamus Brennan, asked the Minister about the weekend newspaper reports that the Minister had been offered £200,000 and said there was a conflict of interest in the Minister, with his communications brief, suing a State company, RTE, for which he had a partial responsibility.

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