Sinn Féin leader’s husband has threatened to sue over claims made by Ross in 'Mansion in Cabra' chapter in biography
Ross, who once held an auctioneer’s license, says McDonald and her husband, Martin Lanigan, put their former home on the market in January 2008, asking about €530,000 and sold it privately for a lower price, “probably [in] the region of €485,000″. The author offers no reason why he concludes the couple took a €45,000 drop in the asking price.
In the chapter on the house, called “The Mansion in Cabra”, he refers to the murky acquisition by Charles Haughey of his capacious home, Abbeville, and to Michael Lowry’s house extension, built compliments of businessman Ben Dunne. Lanigan has threatened to sue Ross. Though he is a private citizen, that threat provides another brick in the wall mural of Sinn Féin’s reputation for litigiousness.
It is unedifying to read that unnamed TDs are afraid to speak publicly about legal correspondence they have received from Sinn Féin politicians in which they invoke the very laws governments have allowed to potentially hinder rigorous journalism.
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