A CONSTANT in the Fianna Fáil defence of the money flying into Bertie Ahern’s bank accounts in the 1990s is that the sums involved were not very substantial.

IR£80,000

WILL the £66-a-week secretary finally bring Bertie Ahern’s swaying house of financial cards collapsing down around him?

SO, ANOTHER strand of the Taoiseach’s evidence to the Mahon Tribunal is in conflict with the recollections of those who are in a position to substantiate his story.

FORMER building society manager Blair Hughes told the Mahon Tribunal yesterday he believed Irish punt lodgments to the accounts of the Taoiseach and his daughters came from cash exchanges of stg£15,500.