Comments on: BERTIE AHERN TO ADOPT MAFIA “MENTALLY INCOMPETENT” DEFENCE

By: Conor McCabe

Conor McCabe — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:03:52 +0000

So true Kathie. So true.

By: KathieS

KathieS — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:58:02 +0000

God when will he be made to resign? What can we do, he is giving us the finger and laughing all the way to the bank (pardon the pun). He will serve out his term then go on to a lucrative job in the EU and Ireland will be a laughing stock in the world. HELP!!!!!

By: Tomaltach

Tomaltach — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:38:36 +0000

He knows that once the public accept it, he’ll survive..

but the public don’t accept it! That’s to say, they don’t accept it as a valid explanation. If you mean they ‘take it’ or allow it, then yes, I suppose they do.

I think that Bertie’s strategy isn’t one that is all that solid. Essentially he’s deciding to keep spinning them and hope that nothing incontrovertible emerges to hang him. Carruth’s evidence was devastating in that it shows up Bertie’s story as a pile of …. but as yet, nothing has emerged to link Bertie’s inexplicable money movements to anything untoward. Having said that, his credibility has been so horrendously undermined that he should be forced out of office. It says it all about our political culture that this hasn’t happened.

By: Seán Báite

Seán Báite — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:02:45 +0000

Well FPL, I’m sure it’d the line of defence Hitler would’ve pleaded at Nuremberg too - ‘Some people put yellow in their hair…. I listen to Wagner turned up to 10 and invade Poland !!!’
Conor - are you parading around Zaragoza dressed up as a Klansman all weekend ?? Say ‘Happy Easter’ to the other Klansmen.
On this ‘mentally incompetent’ line of defence, Bertie might have found his inspiration closer to home than New York. Remember that minor gangster that trapped himself under the rubble of a pub in Ballybough that he’d just blown up with a couple of gas cylinders. He claimed he was out taking the air at 3 in the morning and the pub fell on him..
Is he the new legal adviser to Destiny’s sodgers ? What’s this his name was ??

By: Conor McCabe

Conor McCabe — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 14:12:44 +0000

lol.

By: FPL

FPL — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 14:00:53 +0000

Pity Bush and Blair didn’t consult Bertie before invading Iraq. There would have been no need for dodgy dosiers.

“Some people put yellow in their hair, some people wear rings in their nose . . . I decided to invade Iraq, full stop.”