Former Fianna Fáil senator and councillor Don Lydon has been discharged from the corruption trial of businessman Jim Kennedy and three other former councillors.
Judge Mary Ellen Ring told the jurors in the Circuit Criminal court that following the resolution of some legal matters Mr Lydon's case will no longer be a matter for their consideration.
The trial of the other four defendants continues.
Earlier, former lobbyist Frank Dunlop admitted obscuring diary entries relating to developer Owen O'Callaghan.
Under cross examination Mr Dunlop said the concealed entries referred to meetings with Mr O'Callaghan and the late Liam Lawlor regarding a proposed stadium at Neilstown.
He said he regarded these matters as personal business matters and not of significance to the tribunal.
He admitted that he had an agreement to get a 25% stake in the project but was later paid around £95,000, with £100,000 expenses.
Michael O'Higgins, SC, for businessman Jim Kennedy, 66, with an address at Queensway, Gibraltar, said the scratched out entries had been compared to a Jackson Pollock impressionist painting by Mr Dunlop's own barrister.
Some of them had been uncovered by FBI and British forensic experts.
Mr O'Higgins said the tribunal had found Mr Dunlop to be "vague, evasive and unsatisfactory in his explanations" first of all claiming that he just been doodling.
Mr O'Higgins also asked if Mr Dunlop had been requested to make a statement to the Criminal Assets Bureau about Mr O'Callaghan's development at Quarryvale, for which he received £1.8m.
Mr Dunlop said it was his recollection that he was not asked but said it was possible he had instructed his lawyer that he would not make such a statement.
Mr Dunlop has testified that businessman Mr Kennedy gave him £25,000 to bribe councillors for the Carrickmines rezoning during the 1990s.
Mr Kennedy and then councillors Liam Cosgrave, 57, with an address at Blackrock, Co Dublin; Colm McGrath, 56, of Saggart, Co Dublin; and Tony Fox 72, of Churchtown, Dublin, deny charges of corruption.
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