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Tue 07 Jul 2008Ethics watchdog will not examine Ahern payments
Bertie Ahern will not face an ethics inquiry over loans and gifts he received in the early 1990s from Manchester businessmen and friends in Dublin, the Standards in Public Office Commission has ruled.
Mr Ahern claims that he was given £8,000 sterling by Manchester businessmen, and nearly £50,000 Irish pounds by two groups of friends in Dublin as a loan in late 1993 and early 1994.
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