Property investor Paddy McKillen claims communications between certain officials of Department of Finance, Nama, and representatives of the Barclay brothers, relating to the sale of his loans by Irish Bank Resolution Corporation were unlawful and improper.

AFTER admitting she lodged sterling on behalf of the Taoiseach, his former constituency office secretary Gráinne Carruth broke down in the Mahon Tribunal witness box yesterday.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern would have given her oral instructions when he gave her money to lodge on his behalf, his former constituency secretary Gráinne Carruth told the Mahon Tribunal yesterday.

BERTIE AHERN’S former partner Celia Larkin was given an unsecured £30,000 loan by Fianna Fáil 15 years ago — but it was only repaid “in the period since Christmas”, the Mahon Tribunal learned yesterday.