Ahern defiant after tribunal findings

Former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has insisted he never accepted a bribe or corrupt payment after a long-awaited corruption inquiry found he did not tell the truth about a labyrinth of cash payments.

The 15-year Mahon Tribunal did not brand the leader of three Coalition Governments corrupt, but it refused to accept any explanations he offered for a quarter of a million of bank lodgements he made in the early 1990s.