Tribunal leaks were illegal and malicious

I HOPE we have not heard the end of the controversy over the leaking of the Taoiseach’s evidence to the Mahon Tribunal.

Bertie Ahern, in seeking to give as full a reply as possible to the tribunal’s enquiries into entirely separate matters, provided comprehensive documentation which, on at least two occasions, was illegally, and with malicious intent, leaked to the media.

That this information was initially freely given by the Taoiseach, and with the full expectation that he would be thoroughly cross-examined on all matters arising from it, makes it clear to me he had nothing to hide.