Biggest gamble? Convincing the tribunal of memory lapses
For several years since the inquiry first began to investigate Mr Ahern’s bank accounts, the former Fianna Fáil leader had consistently maintained that he had never made any sterling lodgments to his accounts.
Up to last March, the tribunal had been unable to challenge Mr Ahern’s evidence as no records of his account in the then Irish Permanent building society in Drumcondra were traceable. Mr Ahern had always insisted that the lodgments under the scrutiny of the tribunal were merely lodgments from one or more cheques for his salary and expenses.
