All business associations between Mr Joseph Murphy snr and Mr Batt O'Shea, a developer, were severed after Mr James Gogarty came into the Murphy Group and questioned certain matters about building sites, the Flood tribunal was told.
Mr O'Shea said he had always known Mr Murphy. Their two families had gone on holiday together and he always got on very well with him.
When asked who he blamed for the break-up of his business relationship with Mr Murphy, Mr O'Shea replied: "It was Gogarty I blame for it, anyway."
Mr O'Shea said, however, that he remained great friends with Mr Murphy to the present day. He would never say a bad word about him.
Mr O'Shea said that during the late 1960s and 1970s, he bought land on behalf of Mr Murphy.
He said the only money he ever gave the former assistant Dublin city and county manager, Mr George Redmond, was £200 to buy golf balls. Mr O'Shea, a former director of several Murphy group companies, said he gave Mr Redmond the £200 for advice he gave him in relation to land at Portmarnock.
This land at the Martello Estate was subject to vandalism and trespassing and Mr Redmond suggested to Mr O'Shea that he should get the Murphy group to donate some of it to the local community for a church instead of going ahead with its plans for a pub. The company took this advice and the problems eased, said Mr O'Shea.
Mr O'Shea whose company, O'Shea and Shanahan, was building there under licence from the Murphy Group, said he was very grateful for Mr Redmond's advice. He said this was why he decided to pay him £200 for the golf balls.
Ms Patricia Dillon SC, for the tribunal, said: "Can I ask you something I should have asked you yesterday, did you ever pay any money to Mr George Redmond?"
"I gave him £200 to buy golf balls because when I was playing golf with him, his ball went into the rough a lot. He would spend the day looking for it. You would think it was gold. And I gave him £200 like, to buy golf balls and thanks too for the advice you gave us in Porkmarnock," replied Mr O'Shea.
Ms Dillon asked Mr O'Shea if he, during his time building on the north side of Dublin, ever met Mr Ray Burke. "I used to come across him in the Harp," said Mr O'Shea, referring to the Harp Inn in Swords owned by O'Shea and Shanahan, a company he had formed with the late Mr Tom Shanahan.
"He would drink in the Harp. I came across him. I would have a drink with him in the same way as meeting any other man," said Mr O'Shea.