Taoiseach: I Want the Power to Shut Down Tribunals ; Ahern 'Threat' Weeks Before Mahon Ordeal
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BERTIE Ahern said yesterday he plans to introduce laws allowing his Government to shut down the tribunals probing political corruption.
The Taoiseach's announcement comes just weeks before he faces the Mahon inquiry over his string of secret cash gifts from businessmen during the Nineties.See the full content of this document
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Taoiseach: I Want the Power to Shut Down Tribunals ; Ahern 'Threat' Weeks Before Mahon Ordeal
Last night the Opposition condemned Mr Ahern for threatening to bring in the laws just ahead of what could be an explosive cross- examination by the tribunal's lawyers. The tribunal-has already uncovered some 120,000 in Mr Ahern's accounts from the 1990s that cannot have come from his salary as ...
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