‘Separation reason for my tangled finances’

FORMER taoiseach Bertie Ahern has blamed his separation for the tangled financial web that caused his Mahon Tribunal difficulties and ultimately led to his downfall.

In a new four-part TV documentary that begins tonight, Mr Ahern is challenged about the lodgments of large amounts of cash to his accounts in the early 1990s that became the focus of the tribunal’s inquiries.

Mr Ahern separated from his wife Miriam in the late 1980s but it was 1993 before the protracted legal proceedings concluded.