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Ahern Has To Go
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Bertiegate has been gone over again and again, particularly since Bertie Ahern has come before the Tribunal in recent weeks, so I’ll keep this brief.
I expect Bertie Ahern, a member of the Cabinet in 1994 and as the head Government that represents Ireland to the world, to remember every single detail of every single punt he got from businessmen, innocently or not, so that he can prove, and I can know, whether my Taoiseach (because regardless of my political affiliations, that is what he is) is corrupt or not.
When he wibbles and changes his story more than once, that’s one thing. But when he changes it multiple times and claims to have no precise memory of what occurred, that is something else altogether.
Ahern has to go - he has damaged the office of Taoiseach, whether by perception or by misdeed, or by both, that is the fact of Bertiegate.
This is exactly what Enda Kenny should say on the floor of the Dail. Where’s the upside to pulling punches any more? As it is we’re headed for 15 years of Bertieism or the transition to Biffoism sometime during the course of this Dail. That has to be a bleak outlook for the opposition and if nothing else then a time to say what the facts warrant. Bertie has repeatedly changed his story to get it just consistent enough with whatever new facts are presented to him, and as Cian notes above, he doesn’t even seem to have gotten that right in one of the tales with Celia.