Pictured: Fine Gael candidate’s stunning Louth mansion and wall that sunk campaign

Our pictures show the limestone wall Ms Agrios had built around the property as part of a six-figure deal with a developer in exchange for withdrawing her objection to the construction of a neighbouring estate.

Details of two payments by developers to Ms Agrios to withdraw planning objections were revealed by website The Ditch earlier this week.

On Friday, when the Sunday World called to Ms Agrios’s gated home, no-one answered the intercom.

Agrios was dropped as a Fine Gael local election candidate earlier this week after The Ditch revealed she had been the beneficiary of a €30,000 deal from a different developer to withdraw a separate planning objection.

She had developer, Wakefield Ltd, pay her €15,000 and carry out €15,000 worth of work to her house so she would withdraw her objection to the Balfeddock Manor development, which neighbours her home in Co. Louth.

As part of the deal, the works included a new Indian sandstone patio.

Following the website’s revelation, Agrios issued a statement on social media confirming the report and asked people not to vote for her on June 7.

“Following a report published online yesterday, I wish to announce I will not be contesting the 2024 local elections,” she said. “What occurred was wrong and I am extremely sorry for it. It should not have happened.

“While my name remains on the ballot paper, I now ask that voters do not consider me for election. Once again, I apologise for what happened. It should not have occurred. I will not be making any further comment.”

Agrios did not mention the existence of any other similar deals in her statement.

But The Ditch revealed later in the week how she had also negotiated a deal that compelled a different property developer to increase a separate €103,000 package she got to withdraw a planning appeal.

Agrios initially agreed to a deal with a property developer involving €103,000 worth of work to her home in exchange for the withdrawal of a planning appeal.

But this was followed up by a supplemental agreement months later that increased this package to €129,000.

Property developer Cheverdale Limited had successfully applied to Louth County Council for permission to build 51 new homes on a former ghost estate site in Termonfeckin, Co. Louth.

Fine Gael’s Marian Agrios and her husband, Demetrios, who live beside the now-completed housing estate, had lodged an objection to the development.

On June 29, 2017, Agrios and her husband appealed the council’s decision to grant permission to An Bord Pleanála (ABP).

Within 24 hours of lodging her appeal, Agrios signed an agreement with Cheverdale, which would see her get €103,510 (plus VAT) worth of work in the form of a luxury stone wall around her home, free of charge in exchange for withdrawing her planning appeal.

This deal, however, was changed at Agrios’s insistence just more than a year later.

The supplemental agreement, signed in July 2018, had Cheverdale agree to increase the value of construction work on Agrios’s premium stonework wall to €129,540 (plus VAT).

The legal document noted that the “type of stone to be used in the construction of the wall” had been agreed by the former Fine Gael candidate.