Storm over Taoiseach dies down to a breeze

EVERYONE, it seems, is dampening expectations — even the opposition.

Today was supposed to be a day of reckoning for the Taoiseach, but it is now apparent this won’t be the case. Not by a long shot.

When the Taoiseach’s former secretary, Gráinne Carruth, accepted that monies she lodged to an account on his behalf in 1994 were originally sterling sums, it was arguably the single most damaging testimony to Mr Ahern heard at the tribunal to date.