Martin Mansergh (Tipperary South, Fianna Fail)

——similarly the Mahon tribunal about certain planning matters has ended up — one might wonder how — as a trial of Bertie Ahern, complete with a Ken Starr style special prosecutor. A star witness protected by the tribunal has sought, with a good deal less wit than Beaumarchais over 200 years ago in France, to maintain that it is not corrupt to give money, only to receive it.

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