The auditor to the Mount Brandon Hotel and one of its directors have both told the Moriarty Tribunal they have no explanation as to why over a quarter of a million pounds of the hotel's money ended up in an account linked to Charles Haughey. A cheque from Princes Investments, the company which runs the Tralee hotel, was sent to an Amiens account in Guinness and Mahon.
Thomas Clifford, one of the directors of the hotel, said they thought they were paying off a loan they owed to the Guinness and Mahon bank in 1987. Earlier, Paul Carty from Deloitte and Touche, the hotel's auditors, said the only statement missing from their files in relation to this loan was the statement showing it was paid off in 1985.
