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.

“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.