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Fri 05 May 2007Unlike Cowen, Taoiseach says he never smoked potNo, nay, never. Taoiseach Bertie Ahern categorically denied yesterday that he had ever smoked, much less inhaled, even the smallest quantity of marijuana in his life, writes Deaglán de Bréadún, Political CorrespondentThe question arose following an admission by Minister for Finance Brian Cowen in a Hot Press interview that he smoked pot on "a couple of occasions" as a UCD student in the 1970s.