A fact-finding review by senior counsel into the party’s handling of the campaign, seen by BBC News NI, has found Fianna F\u00e1il was asked twice through media queries about issues surrounding a former tenant.<\/p>\n
The party was asked on Friday 5 September, and Monday 8 September, about an issue with a tenant by a journalist from the Irish Independent newspaper.<\/p>\n
A backbench Dublin TD, John Lahart, also sent a text to deputy leader and Public Expenditure Minister Jack Chambers on 8 September referring to “a potential issue with a tenant who was a journalist and the return of a deposit”.<\/p>\n
When those three queries were put to Mr Gavin, he said he was not aware or had no memory of such issues.<\/p>\n
Mr Gavin went on to be selected as the party’s presidential candidate the very next day.<\/p>\n
This detail in the review is likely to cause further fractions within the Fianna Fail backbenches, as some TDs were unhappy with how the candidate was backed by the leadership.<\/p>\n
Mr Gavin received 41 votes and veteran MEP Billy Kelleher received 29 votes in a vote which was viewed as very close.<\/p>\n
The Irish Independent published a story detailing the issue around rent which was mistakenly overpaid to Mr Gavin in 2009 on Saturday 4 October.<\/p>\n
In the article, a statement from Fianna F\u00e1il said Mr Gavin had no “recollection or any records” of any dispute with a tenant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fact-finding review by senior counsel into the party’s handling of the campaign, seen by BBC News NI,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-320468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}