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Sat 07 Jul 2007Judgment reserved in case taken by tribunalThe Irish Timeswould be "dead as a newspaper" if the High Court ordered its editor and public affairs correspondent to answer questions aimed at disclosing the source of an article about financial payments to Taoiseach Bertie Ahern when he was minister for finance in 1993, the court was told yesterday.Eoin McGonigal SC was making closing submissions for Geraldine Kennedy and Colm Keena on the final day of the action by the Mahon tribunal seeking such an order against them.