Quest to balance Bertie’s books

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.

The tribunal is specifically looking into four lodgments that were made into bank accounts in the name of Bertie Ahern, right, and Celia Larkin between October 1994 and December 1995. The total amount was IR£85,000 and all involved foreign transactions.

It was only in April this year that he made the Tribunal aware that three lodgements involved foreign transactions.