Tribunal raises foreign exchange issue for Ahern

It is being reported that the Mahon Tribunal has raised questions about foreign exchange transactions relating to Bertie Ahern's finances during the 1990s.

According to this morning's Irish Times, the tribunal contends that the amount of money in Irish pounds lodged by Celia Larkin in a bank account in December 1994 does not equate to the STG£30,000 (€44,000) amount businessman Michael Wall supplied for renovations on a house he was letting to Bertie Ahern.