Ahern’s cash row - Reynolds has reopened old wounds

Just when Taoiseach Bertie Ahern may have imagined that the issue of the money he accepted as Finance Minister was safely behind him, it was revisited once again by the man he succeeded.

Former Taoiseach Albert Reynolds was unequivocal as to whether his predecessor was wrong or not to take the money and said so on national radio yesterday.

He said he strongly believed that there was no way a member of a government should finance anything he was doing in that respect.