EIGHT days after last year’s story hit the headlines that close friends had given him a financial “dig-out” in 1993, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern repaid a total of €90,867, the Mahon Tribunal heard yesterday.

One of Taoiseach Bertie Ahern’s close friends who helped put up a £39,000 (€49,500) loan for him in the early 1990s revealed today he refused to take the money back four times.