Irish presidential candidate, Fianna Fáil's Jim Gavin, speaking to media after a debate on The Week in Politics at RTE's studios in Dublin on Sunday. Photograph: Conor O'Mearain/PA Wire

Fianna Fáil presidential candidate Jim Gavin has said he is “looking into” an allegation that a former tenant of his mistakenly overpaid €3,300 in rent for an apartment he used to own and was never paid back.

“If it happened I’m very sorry that it happened, I really am, and I will address it,” he said on Sunday.

Mr Gavin and his wife Jennifer used to own an apartment in the Smithfield area of Dublin.

A report in the Irish Independent set out how they got into financial difficulties and the property was handed back

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