Tánaiste urged to come clean on cash controversy

TÁNAISTE Michael McDowell should disclose any new information he has on the controversy surrounding Taoiseach Bertie Ahern’s financial dealings, Green Party leader Trevor Sargent said yesterday.

Mr Sargent said Mr Ahern should make a statement — “the sooner, the better”.

“I think that Michael McDowell also has a responsibility in the national interest to put the information he has into the public domain so that the statement from Bertie Ahern can be judged in the context of what Michael McDowell knows, rather than in isolation,” he said. “It would be a better way for the public to evaluate who is telling the truth and what the truth is.