Secretary admits sterling lodgments

AFTER admitting she lodged sterling on behalf of the Taoiseach, his former constituency office secretary Gráinne Carruth broke down in the Mahon Tribunal witness box yesterday.

Secretary admits sterling lodgments

“I just want to go home,” pleaded the mother of three, who had been employed in Bertie Ahern’s Dublin Central constituency office from 1987 to 1999, as she came under relentless questioning.

Earlier, when she insisted she did not remember making the lodgments for Mr Ahern during a seven-month period in 1994, she was warned it is a criminal offence to lie to the tribunal.

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