Brazen Bertie blanks opposition’s cheque queries

BERTIE AHERN has had enough of questions about blank cheques.

The Taoiseach told the Dáil yesterday he wouldn’t be answering any more of them.

Mr Ahern was discussing the recent report of the Moriarty Tribunal, which found his habit of signing blank cheques for Charles Haughey in the 1980s “undoubtedly facilitated the misuse” of taxpayer funds by the late Taoiseach and Fianna Fáil leader.