Bertie Ahern went on Russian trip Peadar Toibin declined after Irish-based consultancy firm invited TDs to 'non-political' conference

Aontú leader Peadar Tóibín described the offer to meet Putin as "very strange and a little incredible," citing the anti-democratic nature of the Putin regime.

The trip included a conference titled "Development of Trade-Economic and Investment Co-operation in the Conditions of Brexit," which was characterized as "not political at all" by Ann Harrington.

Read at Irish Independent