Posted in Fianna Fáil, Excuses, Bastards, Bertiegate, Bertie, Ahern, Politics on Mar 26th, 2008 No Comments »
One week after Grainne Carruth´s devastating testimony to the Mahon Tribunal - testimony which has left the Taoiseach’s defense of his financial “irregularities” in tatters - not one senior cabinet minister has come out publicly to support him.
This is what Minister for Education, Mary Hanafin, had to say on the matter yesterday:
I’m only dealing […]
Posted in Fianna Fáil, Excuses, Bertiegate, Ahern, Bertie, Politics on Mar 21st, 2008 No Comments »
An Taoiseach Bertie Ahern responded to his critics in devastating fashion today, by issuing an Easter Road safety message.
In Yesterday’s Tribunal proceedings the former secretary of the Taoiseach, Grainne Carruth, admitted under cross-examination that between 1993 and 1995 she deposited £15,500 of sterling into Bertie’s building society account. The Taoiseach had previously told the tribunal […]
Posted in Excuses, Fianna Fáil, Bertiegate on Mar 18th, 2008 9 Comments »
Miriam Lord finds Tim Collins’ evidence at the Mahon Tribunal less than credible. In fact, his statements explaining himself are completely laughable.
Tim is one of the now well-known back room boys who features in newspaper articles when journalists try to describe the power behind the throne, over in Bertie’s Drumcondra constituency office. Despite the […]
Posted in Fianna Fáil, Excuses, politics/Ireland, Bertiegate, Bertie, Ahern, Politics on Mar 18th, 2008 2 Comments »
I do think people know my view for twenty years on this, ehm, it would actually give me the greatest of pleasure to watch non-compliant taxpayers go to jail. That´s the type of person I am.”
Posted in Excuses, Fianna Fáil, Greens, politics/Ireland on Mar 2nd, 2008 2 Comments »
Martin Horgan is an ambitious chap. A Green party representative, he has this to say about corruption in Irish politics.
Ireland is a modern western nation with a strong economy built by the hard work and educational standard of its people and the talent of its business profession and entrepreneurs.
This economic progression has been fuelled […]
Posted in Excuses, Fianna Fáil, Government, Greens on Feb 26th, 2008 2 Comments »
Thanks to Simon of Irish Election for this one.
The Irish Green party has finally bit the bullet and has taken its first major stand on corruption since coming to power in June. It has decided to give its full support to anti-corruption activists - not in Ireland, mind, but in Columbia.
In a statement released on […]
Posted in Excuses, Fianna Fáil, politics/Ireland, Ahern, Bertie on Feb 22nd, 2008 4 Comments »
Yesterday at the Mahon tribunal, Bertie Ahern changed his story regarding certain lodgements to his account in the 1990s, and said that now he remembered that one had come from his mother (deceased), another from the estate of his father (deceased), and another probably came from a businessman (deceased).
Hiding behind a coffin. No excuse […]
Posted in Excuses, apologies on Feb 1st, 2008 3 Comments »
Warning: This is one of those boring posts about why there has been so little activity on the site of late.
Some readers may have noticed that things have thinned out a bit on Dublin Opinion recently. Well, considering that we’ve been nominated in not one, but a staggering four categories in the Irish Blog […]