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Jerry Beades of the New Land League organisation, who built up bank debts of almost €16m during his career as a developer, but he says he is in the process of appealing all of it. The former Fianna Fail National Executive member, who was part of former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern’s “Drumcondra Mafia”, ran up a string of debts with four financial institutions during the Celtic Tiger years.