Wall’s election donation ended up in B/T account

A £2,000 STERLING donation from a Manchester businessman to aid a Fianna Fáil election campaign ended up in a bank account specifically set up to fund refurbishment work on Bertie Ahern’s constituency office, it emerged yesterday.

Michael Wall told the Mahon Tribunal that he had given the money on his own initiative to one of Mr Ahern’s associates, Tim Collins, around 1989, to assist the party in a local election.

Tribunal barrister Henry Murphy SC informed the Mayo-born businessman that the money had ended up in the “B/T” account.