Quote #17

'I'm not answering what I got for my Holy Communion money, my Confirmation money, what I got for my birthday, what I got for anything else, I'm not into that.' (21 September 2006 responding to questions relating to a leak from The Mahon Tribunal that they would investigate payments he received in 1993.)

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