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At least it is according to Minister Brian Lenihan last week.

Yea, you would guess it’s all over since Bertie Ahern resigned as Taoiseach. Well, it isn’t. And there was more explosive evidence. Didn’t hear about it? Quelle surprise. The media, read RTE, seem to be taking their eye off the ball.
Remember that whole B/T account thing?

During a discussion back in 2002, John Gormley certainly didn’t hold any punches when it came to a sum of £30k and a Taoiseach who misled the Dail. Ah, how times change. I guess Gormley would now say “That was then and this is now.”

The Resign, Mr Ahern Facebook group, started back at the start of December, has just passed 1,500 members. It is certainly a milestone, and certainly the biggest Irish-oriented political group I have come across.
Following requests from members for some form of physical protest against Mr Ahern, I have put a date of Saturday April 12 [...]

During the course of his employment [...], his financial remuneration was not sufficient to meet his immediate financial requirements, and he experienced financial difficulties. He said he received assistance from his friends [...], in the form of loans. There was no formal structure to these loans. There was no interest charge, nor was there any [...]

I finally got my hands on it. I had trouble finding it anywhere on the internet, so someone may have already beaten me to it.
Anyways here it is. Pee Flynn destroying his political career in one interview. The quality is not the best as it was recorded on VHS nine years ago, but it is [...]

I have been working away - slowly but surely - on a Mahon Tribunal website. The purpose is to try and organise the sheer volume of information relating to its work, both past and present. Somehow the site is already ranked two on Google for “Mahon Tribunal” searches.
Since the site uses MediaWiki software, anyone can [...]

Thanks a million to Simon for inviting me to post here on Irish Election. I hope to contribute regularly. For my first trick…(I also posted this to my own blog as I want as much feedback as possible).
Myself and my friend have put together a test version of a Mahon Tribunal podcast.
It’s about 30 [...]