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 politics/Ireland, Fianna Fáil, Bertiegate, Ahern, Bertie, Politics on Mar 22nd, 2008 6 Comments »
The Irish Independent revealed today that the Taoiseach will tell the Mahon tribunal that he converted his salary cheques into sterling, and then back into punts, before lodging them into the three accounts he kept at the Permanent TSB branch in Drumcondra. This is in response to Grainne Carruth’s devastating evidence to the Mahon […]
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 politics/Ireland, Bertiegate, Ahern, Bertie on Mar 21st, 2008 6 Comments »
I tried to find footage of Brian Dobson’s interview on YouTube, but no joy. So, here’s the moment when Bertie was challenged by Vincent Brown, and Bertie said that he had revealed all about his personal finances. Gavingsblog.com has a breakdown of monies received by Bertie Ahern during 1994-5, only one lodgement of which is […]
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 aesthetics, muppets, Bertiegate, Ahern, Bertie, Politics on Dec 20th, 2007 4 Comments »
although it may have been the norm there was nothing forcing people to follow the norm, he said some people dye their hair yellow some people put rings in their nose and that’s not normal’.
Bertie Ahern, the fucking brains of the operation, today compared his financial acumen to a fashion statement. He was talking about […]
Posted in Bertiegate, Ahern, Bertie, Politics on Dec 10th, 2007 3 Comments »
From the YouTube blurb:
After being asked a number of questions by Ursula Halligan, Senator Eoghan Harris decides he doesn’t want to talk about the validity of the Mahon Tribunal’s investigations into Bertie Ahern’s finances, despite having spent the past week attacking the tribunal on this very point.
For a second or two it seems like Harris […]
Posted in Planning, Irish Society, Bertiegate, Ahern, Ireland, Bertie, Politics on Dec 3rd, 2007 3 Comments »
Poor Bertie is also being implicated for indirectly taking bribes from a casino consortium. It would be more accurate to say he is being accused of not taking bribes at all from the casino guys. But somehow this is big news. Bertie also didn’t allow these guys who he didn’t take bribes from build the […]
Posted in History, politics/Ireland, Bertiegate, Politics on Sep 27th, 2007 12 Comments »
Probably the only thing I knew for sure about Alexis De Tocqueville and his book Democracy in America prior to reading an LRB review of Hugh Brogan’s recently published biography was that he was a French man who traveled through America in the 19th century describing the political process as he saw it and thus, […]