Mahon to decide on fairness of questioning

THE Mahon Tribunal is to decide today on an application by Bertie Ahern’s legal team that has alleged the Taoiseach was being unfairly treated at the Dublin Castle inquiry.

Yesterday, tribunal chairman Judge Alan Mahon rejected a plea by Conor Maguire SC for an immediate decision during the examination of Mr Ahern about his personal finances in the early 1990s.

In a blistering attack on the questioning of the Taoiseach, Mr Maguire said that every day the tribunal sat revealed another intrusion into Mr Ahern’s personal finance accounts.