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Saturday 13 August 2022
The former Taoiseach has criticised the media and the findings of the Mahon Tribunal in an interview with the Irish Sun on Sunday today.
Twitter’s going down to 133 characters; Skype has solved the difficulty of poor coverage… and Bertie’s moving to Nigeria.
Former Defence Minister Willie O’Dea has spoken candidly about Bertie Ahern’s evidence to the Mahon Tribunal in 2007.
It’s Father Ted’s 60th birthday today. Even if he was still around, he probably couldn’t have been any more on-the-button.
The party’s National Executive met this evening to discuss the fallout from the Mahon Report.
Fine Gael has secured 35 per cent support – about the same share as they had during last year’s General Election.
The infamous ‘Drumcondra mafia’ have agreed to transfer ownership of Bertie Ahern’s former constituency office back to the party centrally.
Finbarr Hanrahan has formally resigned his membership of the party, meaning all six of the people due for expulsion have gone.
The Dáil resumes its discussions of the findings of the inquiry into political corruption in the planning process.
Irish politcians have been hitting the headlines with their less than kosher dealings.. how do they match up to these international wheelers and dealers?
James Heffernan says the public gallery, which forms part of tours, should not feature portraits of disgraced politicians.
All the biggest news stories from the day, as well as any of the bits and pieces you may have missed.
The resignations had been expected and are the fourth and fifth since the final report of the Mahon Tribunal. Only ex-councillor Finbarr Hanrahan now faces a motion of expulsion at Friday’s Ard Comhairle.
Check out some of the familiar faces commanding thousands of dollars in speaking fees with the Washington Speakers Bureau.
*That’s if they don’t resign first.
Bertie Ahern spoke at the Ogun State Investors’ Forum in south-western Nigeria yesterday, it has emerged.
Legislation has been largely abandoned this week with TDs set to discuss the corruption revelations in the Tribunal’s final report.
Ógra Fianna Fáíl will propose a motion which would see a second former taoiseach expelled “for conduct unbecoming”.
The former minister and European Commissioner resigns his membership of Fianna Fáil, joining Bertie Ahern on the scrapheap.
The party also received confirmation that Councillor John Hannon has resigned his membership.
Writing in today’s Irish Times, the former Taoiseach said he was “deeply wounded” by the Mahon Tribunal findings.
Joe Costello said a constitutional amendment could halt payments to politicians named as corrupt by the Mahon Tribunal.
“I was honest with the Tribunal and I gave it truthful evidence and I reject completely any suggestion that I did otherwise.”
Celia Larkin describes Ahern as “sometimes downright rude”, but that she never thought him guilty of corruption.
“I can’t allow this blemish on my character to go unanswered,” former Taoiseach says of Mahon report.
The man who led Fianna Fáil for 14 years quits the party before a vote to expel him, while continuing to deny any wrongdoing.
All the biggest news stories from the day, as well as any of the bits and pieces you may have missed.
“You can’t spend your money without being criticised for it,” Joe Burke told Marian Finucane.
The former government advisor has been silent this week but his 2004 book ‘Yes, Taoiseach’ revealed much about him and his thoughts on other key figures in the Mahon Tribunal’s final report.
Your essential news round-up of the day’s biggest stories, plus bits and pieces you may have missed along the way.
The former TD and EU commissioner issues a brief statement rejecting the corruption findings made in the final Tribunal.
Micheál Martin says comments made about Ahern in the Mahon report are “extremely serious”.
The full text of a speech delivered by Micheál Martin this morning in which he explains the decision to expel Bertie Ahern.
The Authority said a panel discussion of a book on the former Taoiseach’s finances had been “unfair”.
IRELAND IS BAKING in a hot spell that is predicted to turn into a heatwave in some parts of the country.
A Status Yellow high temperature warning has been in place since yesterday.
In Europe, Britain, France and Germany are all grappling with water shortages as rivers dry up in the sweltering heat.
So today, we want to know: Have you reduced your water usage recently?
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