Morgan Shelley: The Nama deal needs investigation on both sides of the Border

The extraordinary revelations contained in secret recordings cast a further shadow over the transaction

When eavesdropping on the conversation between two men in Belfast secretly exchanging £40,000 in cash, one would not expect to hear a discussion of the finer points of the legislation underpinning Nama. But such was the conversation between Frank Cushnahan and John Miskelly, in a car parked by a hospital in August 2012. In a secret recording released by BBC’s Spotlight programme, Cushnahan cites section 172 of the Nama Act after receiving the ...