Editing Albert Reynolds (section)

=== Mahon Tribunal ===
In 1993, Reynolds and Bertie Ahern, then Minister for Finance, wrote to developer Owen O'Callaghan seeking a substantial donation. O'Callaghan was then heavily lobbying for state support for a stadium project at [[Neilstown]], County Dublin. According to the report, O'Callaghan felt compelled to donate a sum of [[IR£]]{{nnbsp}}80,000 to Fianna Fáil to get funding for the stadium. The [[Mahon Tribunal]] did not find the payment corrupt. However, the report noted that pressing a businessman to donate money when he was seeking support for a commercial project was "entirely inappropriate, and was an abuse of political power and government authority".<ref>{{cite news|last=McEnroe |first=Juno |url=http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/politics/reynolds-abused-power-by-seeking-donations-188205.html|title=Reynolds 'abused power by seeking donations'|work=[[Irish Examiner]]|access-date=25 March 2012|date=24 March 2012|archive-date=24 May 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130524004153/http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/politics/reynolds-abused-power-by-seeking-donations-188205.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

In November 2007, it was alleged at the Mahon Tribunal that Reynolds, while on government business in New York, collected a substantial sum of money for his Fianna Fáil party that did not get fully credited to the party. On the same trip, it emerged<ref>{{cite news |first=Ronald |last=Quinlan |url=http://www.independent.ie/national-news/reynolds-to-go-on-attack--at-tribunal-over-bahamas-visit-1234690.html |title=Reynolds to go on attack at tribunal over Bahamas visit |work=Irish Independent |date=2 December 2007 |access-date=28 December 2010 |archive-date=20 May 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110520022419/http://www.independent.ie/national-news/reynolds-to-go-on-attack--at-tribunal-over-bahamas-visit-1234690.html |url-status=live }}</ref> in the tribunal that Reynolds had the government jet make an additional and unscheduled five-hour stopover in [[the Bahamas]].

Reynolds received annual pension payments of €149,740.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.independent.ie/national-news/thanks-big-fellas-ahern-and-cowen-get-massive-pensions-2931032.html|title=Thanks big fellas: Ahern and Cowen get massive pensions|work=[[Irish Independent]]|access-date=10 November 2011|first=Fiach|last=Kelly|date=10 November 2011|archive-date=14 September 2012|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120914031001/http://www.independent.ie/national-news/thanks-big-fellas-ahern-and-cowen-get-massive-pensions-2931032.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

In July 2008, it was reported that Reynolds was medically unfit to give evidence at the Mahon Tribunal because of "significant cognitive impairment". Reynolds had on several previous occasions been due to give evidence concerning payments he allegedly received when he was Taoiseach.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0730/mahon.html |title=Reynolds declared unfit to give evidence |publisher=RTÉ News |date=30 July 2008 |access-date=28 December 2010 |archive-date=14 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121014065408/http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0730/mahon.html |url-status=live }}</ref>