TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern walked away from Dublin Castle yesterday telling journalists and spectators the trawl through his personal finances had come to an end.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern agreed yesterday that a mathematical formula, developed by his legal team to show a controversial lodgement in the mid-1990s was made in sterling, did not stand up to scrutiny.

EXPLAINING Bertie Ahern’s finances feels like trying to catch a tenner that you’ve dropped on a breezy day. Just when you think you have grasped it, another gust of wind carries it away.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern landed the first blow at the Mahon Tribunal yesterday when he preempted lawyers’ questions by insisting in an opening statement he was the victim of “hearsay” and “baseless” allegations.