Mahon Tribunal

…the final report of the Mahon Tribunal, the country’s longest-running public inquiry. The report concluded not only that former taoiseach Ahern had not been truthful in his testimony to the tribunal regarding his finances but also that every level of Irish political life had been affected by corruption tied to…

…(ultimately better known as the Mahon Tribunal)—which was investigating alleged illegal payments by developers to politicians to influence zoning decisions in and around Dublin during the early 1990s—subsequently questioned Ahern about his personal finances during his tenure as finance minister. In early April 2008, as the investigation of Ahern’s involvement…