“Some people dye their hair yellow or put rings in their noses”

— Bertie Ahern

Explaining to the Mahon Tribunal on 20 December 2007 why he did not have a bank account in 1993. Planning Tribunal Transcript http://www.planningtribunal.ie/images/SITECONTENT_784.pdf planningtribunal.ie. 2007-12-20.

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Irish politician, 10th Taoiseach of Ireland 1951

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