"a practice that everybody did in the country, let's be very frank and honest about it, and not be prudish about it"

---Bertie Ahern TD talking about his signing of blank cheques drawn on the Fianna Fail Party's Leader's account for Charles Haughey.

"The tribunal cannot accept the testimony given by Mr Haughey to the effect that he knew virtually nothing of his financial arrangements and left these matters to Mr Traynor,"

"Apart from the almost invariably secretive nature of payments from senior members of the business community, their very incidence and scale, particularly during difficult economic times nationally, and when governments led by Mr Haughey were championing austerity, can only be said to have devalued the quality of a modern democracy,"

---Mr Justice Michael Moriarty

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