Reilly widow: Thank God for Bertie

THE widow of one of Bertie Ahern’s dig-out friends expressed relief when a personal cheque she was expecting from the Taoiseach dropped through her letterbox last year, the Mahon Tribunal heard yesterday.

“Thank God for Bertie, now I can bury myself,” terminally-ill Ellen Reilly was reported to have exclaimed on receiving the cheque for €5,914.

In the wake of publicity that Mr Ahern had received payments of €38,000 in the early 1990s, Ms Reilly was expecting a cheque because it was mentioned the money loaned when he was Finance Minister was to be repaid.