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Bertie’s own space on the web!

Politics in Ireland — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:42:21 +0000

Bertie Ahern has just launched his new website and because I’ve always liked him and his style of doing things, and because I do believe that he is an honest guy, I’m posting it here and saying Bertie, nice one!... Continue reading »

The Office of Bertie Ahern

Politics in Ireland — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:41:52 +0000

Industry sources have said that former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern can expect to command fees of up to €100000 an engagement if he chooses to pursue a career on the after-dinner speaking circuit. That’ll be a shit load of cash to keep under …... Continue reading »

Bertie’s On The Web

Politics in Ireland — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:06:03 +0000

“a defining moment in Irish history was the successful negotiation by Bertie Ahern and Tony Blair of the Good Friday Agreement between the British and Irish Governments and the political parties in Northern Ireland in April 1998.” …... Continue reading »

The UK took on the IRA (we lost because Major Blair was a chicken …

Politics in Ireland — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:45:42 +0000

Or one could apply the alternate description offered by then-Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, who hailed the alliance as “a whole lot of loo-lahs of every kind and shape”. Certainly, every kind and shape of leftie was solemnly seated in the …... Continue reading »

Tales of Recession : The Celtic Tiger & Other Metaphors

Politics in Ireland — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:45:04 +0000

And it all seemed to be down to the doughy-faced young gun Bertie Ahern and his government. ‘Safe hands’ was the phrase that often came to mind, and kept coming to mind throughout the 1990s and noughties when the country twice more …... Continue reading »

L'Oreal Taoiseach's €10k bill

Politics in Ireland — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:42:53 +0000

Bertie Ahern may have fallen spectacularly from office, but at least he looked good in the process, according to his grooming figures.... Continue reading »

Explaining the Irish

Politics in Ireland — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:42:27 +0000

The Mahon tribunal: No investigation of the national psyche would be complete without details of Bertie Ahern's personal finances, which make both the Lisbon Treaty and Universal String Theory seem straightforward by comparison. …... Continue reading »

“Are you sure?”

Politics in Ireland — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:07:11 +0000

Tribunal regulars know that the only way to get through a day of evidence from Bertie Ahern is to suspend disbelief - as if enjoying a good farce - and settle down to some cracking entertainment. The plot is well rehearsed at this stage …... Continue reading »

BERTIE’S FINAL DAY

Politics in Ireland — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:03:38 +0000

TODAY BERTIE Ahern was cross-examined by the Inquiry into Planning and Payments about the purchase and ownership of his home, Beresford Avenue in his constituency of Drumcondra, North Central Dublin. Today’s appearance by the former …... Continue reading »

LISBON TREATY MY ARSE !

Politics in Ireland — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:46:53 +0000

The Lisbon Treaty is of course partially the work of Bertie Ahern who got agreement on a great deal of what we are voting on when Ireland had the EU presidency for six months in 2006. Of course, as we now know, Bertie had only his own …... Continue reading »

Getting to “Yes”

Politics in Ireland — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:36:12 +0000

They said “trust us” about the propriety of that chief avatar of “trust me” politics, Bertie Ahern. They said it after his tearful confession to Brian Dobson, they said it before the election, and Bertie is still at it in Dublin Castle, …... Continue reading »

Mahon Tribunal, is anybody taking it seriously?

Politics in Ireland — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:59:33 +0000

If our national broadcaster puts a rip the pish impersonater on their so called serious reenactments, if Bertie Ahern can't take it seriously and if the whole gallery of Dublin Castle thinks it's all such a laugh, is there any point …... Continue reading »

All over bar the shouting

Politics in Ireland — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:39:08 +0000

After a series of kicking to touch the Irish EU presidency was hailed as a diplomatic triumph largely thanks to the legendary negotiating skills of Bertie Ahern, who along with the best of the Irish civil service, facilitated and …... Continue reading »

Six degress of Wikipedia

Politics in Ireland — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 17:42:36 +0000

In a super clever stroke, TCD student Stephen Dolan has created a tool that works out the shortest path between two articles on Wikipedia. Example:. Shortest path from Bertie Ahern to corruption Bertie Ahern …... Continue reading »

Hmm

Politics in Ireland — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 22:21:00 +0000

“We also met Mary Harney and Bertie Ahern. But we got no support from Mr Ahern on the issue, and I would be worried that, if Fianna Fail were in power, it many have been a different story.” Ahern has always said he never backed the …... Continue reading »

Bertie Finally Gets Story Straight For Tribunal

Politics in Ireland — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 22:20:51 +0000

Fianna Fáil backbencher Bertie Ahern told the Mahon Tribunal yesterday that he has finally got his story straight regarding his dodgy finances in the early to mid-1990s. The question of a lodgement of £8000 sterling to his account in …... Continue reading »

“Bertie Ahern is reduced to flogging a dead horse.”

Politics in Ireland — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 22:20:48 +0000

With the absence of a paper-trail broadly established, former Taoiseach [and former Finance Minister - Ed] Bertie Ahern is back in front of the Mahon Tribunal this week and, while we’ve yet to hear today’s version, he has already been …... Continue reading »

Bertie Ahern - Man of the People - name the horse!

Politics in Ireland — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 22:20:40 +0000

According to this Breaking News article in todays Irish Times, our former Taoiseachs comments on the size of sterling amounts of cash held by him in his safe in Drumcondra. According to the article, available by clicking here: …... Continue reading »

LOOKIN’ OUT FOR LARKIN

Politics in Ireland — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:56:31 +0000

TODAY CELIA LARKIN, Bertie Ahern’s former partner, was questioned by Henry Murphy SC about receiving an unsecured loan of IR£30000 in 1993 from a Fianna Fail account in Irish Permanent Building Society, Drumcondra. …... Continue reading »

Vote No To Giscard’s Lisbon Swindle

Politics in Ireland — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:56:30 +0000

Those opposing it were dismissed as “loo-las” by Bertie Ahern and branded as brainless by the nation’s sycophants-in-situ, the big employers group, Ibec. Join the loo-las. Wear the insults as a badge of honour. …... Continue reading »