Was It a Digout...Or Stg25,000 Paid in Byhis Ex-Girlfriend? ; Bertie's Week of Reckoning
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BERTIE AHERN yesterday faced suggestions that a controversial bank lodgement being probed by the Mahon Tribunal was a previously undisclosed stg25,000 amount and not a mixture of sterling and punts as claimed by the Taoiseach.
Tribunal counsel Des O'Neill SC suggested to Mr Ahern that the October 11, 1994 lodgement would have equated exactly to stg25,000 using one of the rates of exchange available at the AIB bank that day.See the full content of this document
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Was It a Digout...Or Stg25,000 Paid in Byhis Ex-Girlfriend? ; Bertie's Week of Reckoning
But Mr Ahern firmly rejected this theory and said the lodgement, which equated to 27,491.95 in Irish punts, was made up of a combination of around stg8,000 received from businessmen in Manchester and around 16,500 received from four friends in Dublin.
He also insisted that the money had been lodg...See the full content of this document