Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald has denied former councillor Jonathan Dowdall’s claims she used the Hutch family for money and votes.
He was secretly recorded making the allegations and criticising Ms McDonald for not attending the funeral of the brother of murder accused Gerry “The Monk” Hutch. The claims emerged in the Special Criminal Court where Hutch is on trial for the murder of David Byrne, who was shot dead at Dublin’s Regency Hotel in February 2016.
Ms McDonald has rejected the allegations. She told BBC NI’s Sunday Politics show: “That is absolutely not true. Let me further say that that case is ongoing in Dublin.
