16 Facts About Liam Lawlor

Liam Lawlor grew up in Crumlin and was educated at Synge Street CBS and the College of Technology, Bolton Street.

Liam Lawlor resigned the position in 1989 due to his position as a non-executive director of Food Industries, a company that wished to acquire the Irish Sugar Company.

Liam Lawlor was one of a number of local councillors who were called as witnesses before the Mahon Tribunal investigating planning and payments in County Dublin.

Liam Lawlor admitted receiving sums of money from the lobbyist Frank Dunlop which he stated were political donations and not bribes.

Liam Lawlor was a European member of the controversial private political group, the Trilateral Commission.

Liam Lawlor did not stand at the 2002 general election.

Liam Lawlor appeared at the Flood Tribunal several times and was imprisoned on three occasions in Mountjoy Prison for contempt of court arising from Orders of the High Court requiring him to co-operate with the tribunal.

On 7 February 2002 Liam Lawlor was released from jail to make a Dail appearance during which he ignored unprecedented all-party calls for his resignation.

In what the Irish Independent described as "one of the most sensational days in the House", Liam Lawlor was released temporarily by the High Court to mount his own defence during an hour-long debate.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, said Liam Lawlor had repeatedly let politics down and his position was untenable.

Liam Lawlor, he said, had been committed to prison three times and political life was "cheapened" by this.

Liam Lawlor was released by the High Court for about two hours on third day of his 28-day sentence for not co-operating with the Flood Tribunal.

High Court president Justice Joseph Finnegan granted the request but laid down strict conditions on Liam Lawlor's release, saying he was to be taken from Mountjoy to Leinster House, stay for the debate and then be returned to jail.

Liam Lawlor was killed on 22 October 2005, when the Mercedes-Benz car he was being driven in on the way from Sheremetyevo International Airport crashed into a concrete street light on the Leningrad Shosse, the main road between Saint Petersburg and Moscow, twenty-three kilometres from Moscow.

Liam Lawlor was injured in the crash that killed Lawlor.

The funeral of Liam Lawlor was held in Lucan on 26 October 2005.