HUGH McELVANEY, the Monaghan councillor who featured in last week’s RTE investigation of non-disclosure of interests, is selling his stake in the family waste disposal business for €750,000.

Documents recently filed in the Companies Registration Office show McElvaney is in negotiations to sell his interest in Exomex (Ireland) to a company controlled by members of his family. The company trades as McElvaney Waste & Recycling and has operations in Monaghan and Cavan.

McElvaney was recorded in the RTE show suggesting £10,000 (€13,850) would be “a start” for him acting as a “conduit” in securing planning for a fictitious wind farm company seeking to invest in the county. The 66-year old councillor, a former mayor of Monaghan, later claimed his responses were a “piss pull” and