{"id":46780,"date":"2025-09-06T06:18:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T06:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/46780\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T06:18:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T06:18:09","slug":"what-bertie-ahern-wants-us-to-know-about-cmat-jim-gavin-and-his-bank-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/46780\/","title":{"rendered":"What Bertie Ahern wants us to know about CMAT, Jim Gavin and his bank accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The former taoiseach was keen to right a few \u2018misconceptions\u2019, despite withdrawing from the presidential race\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Former taoiseach Bertie Ahern with Fianna F\u00e1il leader Micheal Martin at the party ard fheis last year. Photo: PA\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/af42a36e-cefe-4194-a8d3-155f6ac22111.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Former taoiseach Bertie Ahern with Fianna F\u00e1il leader Micheal Martin at the party ard fheis last year. Photo: PA<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Bertie Ahern will not be the next president, but it seems unlikely we have heard the last from the former taoiseach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">In a 35-minute audio message sent to supporters earlier this week, he made clear he wasn\u2019t fearful of campaign questions about the Mahon Tribunal or the economic crash that followed the Celtic Tiger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The former taoiseach was keen to right a few \u2018misconceptions\u2019, despite withdrawing from the presidential race Former taoiseach&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[15526,9,10,18,13,14,4771,6,19,17,19487,33139,11,12,15,16,5765,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-46780","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-bertie-ahern","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-fianna-fail","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-jim-gavin","19":"tag-kevin-doyle","20":"tag-latest-news","21":"tag-latestnews","22":"tag-main-news","23":"tag-mainnews","24":"tag-micheal-martin","25":"tag-news","26":"tag-top-stories","27":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}