Celia Larkin has told the Planning Tribunal that she received a loan of IR£45,510 from Bertie Ahern prior to re-paying the loan she received from Fianna Fáil to purchase a house for her aunts in 1993.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern’s former partner Celia Larkin has admitted he helped to jog her memory about his financial affairs prior to her appearance before the Mahon Tribunal.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern’s testimony will not be heard until the Mahon Tribunal returns in September from its summer break.

A BANK lodgement of IR£28,772.90 made by Taoiseach Bertie Ahern’s former partner, Celia Larkin, on December 5, 1994, did not equate with any sterling amount received that day in AIB branch in O’Connell Street, Dublin — but tallied with $45,000, the Mahon Planning Tribunal heard yesterday.

Grand prix winners at Ireland’s premier annual investor relations event are Anglo Irish Bank, CRH, CPL Resources, DCC and Newcourt Group.

AN Garda Síochána faces industrial strife after a staff association yesterday voted - by a narrow margin - against cooperating with the garda reserve.

Forensic officers are carrying out tests on money found in Dublin and Belfast today to see if it is linked to the Northern Bank robbery last month.

CIE published information at the inception of the DART system in 1984 that the overhead electric wires that power the system could be isolated through the use of lineside electrical switch houses, located at six points along the original line.

The Minister for Agriculture Joe Walsh is expressing concern for the Irish cattle market this autumn.