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Tue 01 Jan 2007Taoiseach silent on loan remarkTaoiseach Bertie Ahern has declined to respond to former taoiseach Albert Reynolds's criticism of his decision to accept loans and gifts from friends and Manchester-based businessmen in the early 1990s.Clearly reluctant to comment in detail yesterday in Riyadh, Mr Ahern said: "Well, I don't think that I came out to Saudi Arabia to comment about something ...