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Mon 01 Jan 2007Reynolds criticises Ahern for accepting moneyFormer taoiseach Albert Reynolds has strongly criticised his successor, Bertie Ahern, for accepting money from friends and businessmen when Mr Ahern was minister for finance in the early 1990s.Mr Reynolds said yesterday he was "shocked" at the revelations last September that Mr Ahern took money because it was something that he, as taoiseach of the day, should have been aware of, but was not.