Liam Lawlor dies in moscow taxi crash.

international | politics / elections | news report Saturday October 22, 2005 19:19 by horses and plumes

"he might have been investigating ukranian real estate options"

As the FF party gather in Gleneagles to hear amongst others Willie O'Dea suggest that the left of ireland are silent on their past links to stalinist groups and generally all things russian, news has come that the former TD for West Dublin Liam Lawlor, Insult deleted who almost lost his seat to Workers Party Tomas Mc giolla in 1992) was killed when the mercedes taxi he sharing with an unknown Ukranian women was travelling from Moscow airport in crashed in the small hours of 22/x/2005.

The FF party has not clarified what the former TD was doing in Moscow, a ukranian women who was in the taxi with him is reported to have survived the accident in which the driver also died.

Mr Lawlor is survived by his wife and 4 children in Dublin.

Lawlor was thought by many to take the brunt for his peers in the "unity prosperity community" party FF for the Flood tribunal and as a result of his refusals to co-operate was imprisoned 3 times in 2002.

Thereafter he resigned his seat, having become in life almost as much an embarrasment to FF as he mignt yet prove in his poorly timed accidental death during their Ard Fheis.

background to the Lawlor scandals:-
http://www.rte.ie/news/2002/0204/lawlor.html

his death :-
http://www.rte.ie/news/2005/1022/lawlorl.html

RIP
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Liam Lawlor was born in October, 1945 in Dublin. He was educated at Synge Street CBS and the College of Technology. Before he entered politics he ran his own refrigeration company. In 1977 he was elected to Dáil Éireann as a Fianna Fáil TD. In 1981 he lost his seat, regeined it in February 1982, but lost it again in November 1982. Lawlor regained his Dáil seat again in 1987. That year he was appointed Chairman of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Commercial State-Sponsored Bodies. He resigned in 1989 due to his position as a director with a food company. In 1990 he was one of the first to speak out against the leadership style of Charles Haughey. This cost him dearly because in 1991 he lost his seat on Dublin City Council and in the 1992 general election he nearly lost his Dáil seat to Tomás MacGiolla.

Lawlor was the only local councillor who refused to go before the Flood Tribunal investigating planning irregularities in County Dublin. Since then he has admitted receiving sums of money from the lobbyist Frank Dunlop. After Fianna Fáil contucted its own internal investigation Lawlor resigned from the Party, however he continues to support the government in the Dáil. Lawlor has since appeared at the Tribunal on several occasions and was imprisoned in Mountjoy Prison for non-compliance with the investigation.