Reilly denies lying over Ahern dig-out

FORMER plasterer Paddy Reilly warned the Mahon Tribunal legal team yesterday not to accuse him of lying over a £16,500 cash “dig-out” he and other friends gave Taoiseach Bertie Ahern in September 1994.

Reilly denies lying over Ahern dig-out

“You are making it up,” tribunal lawyer Henry Murphy SC suggested after Mr Reilly said he and the three other donors had decided, after a discussion in Beaumont House pub on Dublin’s northside, to give the money in cash as they felt Mr Ahern would not accept a cheque.

“No, that is not true,” said Mr Reilly.

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