Developer ‘took care of’ Ahern, Mahon told

BERTIE Ahern was “taken care of” and “looked after” by a businessman seeking special tax designation for one of his projects, the Mahon Tribunal was told yesterday.

`Broadcaster and pundit Eamon Dunphy said the clear inference he got from property developer Owen O’Callaghan was that the Taoiseach had received an improper inducement in connection with an early 1990s shopping centre scheme in Athlone, Co Westmeath.

He agreed that the words money, corruption and bribery had never been mentioned in a series of conversations, but stressed that was the “vivid impression” he received from Mr O’Callaghan.