That’s Ireland

As Bertie Ahern is finding it hard to remember the various floods of money washing through his accounts in the mid 1990s, I thought that I might jog his memory by reminding him of what else he was doing on the dates in question. Here’s what he was doing on Tuesday October 11, 1994 – the day he mysteriously lodged an exact Sterling amount that was composed mostly of Irish pounds. >>> (more…)

I’ve written about this one before, under the title Bertie and the Magic Briefcase. It’s the mysterious exact dollar amount that wasn’t really dollars that his partner Celia Larkin lodged for Ahern on Monday December 5, 1994. You know, the bundle of banknotes in the briefcase. But what else was Ahern doing on that day, that might help to jog his memory? >>> (more…)

This is my third attempt to jog Bertie Ahern’s memory by reminding him of what else he was doing on the days that he made those mysterious lodgements back in the 1990s. This post focuses on the £50,000 that he lodged, then took out again, then converted to Sterling, then kept in his safe for a few months, then converted back to Irish money, then re-lodged, in two separate amounts, a few months apart, as any normal person would do. >>> (more…)