Kenny: Turner should clear name at tribunal

THE wealthy Manchester developer at the centre of the Taoiseach and the passport row should “clear up his end of the story” at the Mahon Tribunal, the Fine Gael leader said yesterday.

Enda Kenny also said that as far as he is aware, his party never had any relationship with the multi-millionaire Norman Turner who was behind the unsuccessful Phoenix Park casino project in the 1990s.

It emerged on Wednesday night that Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, in his capacity as finance minister in 1994, helped Mr Turner, whose mother is from Cork, to obtain an Irish passport.