Presidential candidate, Brian Lenihan, still denies that he tried to contact the President in January 1982 in spite of the release this afternoon of a taped interview with political science student, Jim Duffy, in which he confirms that he, Charles Haughey and Sylvester Barrett did make telephone calls to the President.
Report shows news conference.
Duffy reads statement on decision to release transcripts of the interview.
Extract from tape with graphic of transcript in which Lenihan says he, Haughey and Barrett telephoned the President.
Ken Grey, Deputy Editor, ‘Irish Times’, answers question about pressure to publish tape.
The reporter is Una O’Hagan.
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