Party’s view of Ahern funds just doesn’t add up

A CONSTANT in the Fianna Fáil defence of the money flying into Bertie Ahern’s bank accounts in the 1990s is that the sums involved were not very substantial.

Mr Ahern’s brother, Noel Ahern, trotted out this defence again in recent days following the potentially devastating evidence of Gráinne Carruth at the Mahon Tribunal last week.

Ms Carruth accepted she had exchanged sums totalling stg£15,500 to punts and lodged the monies on Bertie Ahern’s behalf while working as a secretary for him in 1994.