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Ahern in Trouble?
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From the Irish Times.
The Taoiseach was lobbied three years ago by the businessman with whom he was photographed in Kerry earlier this week.
Louis Moriarty, whose €20 million hotel development in Sneem Bertie Ahern visited on Tuesday, is at the centre of a series of investigations into illegal dumping.
So did Bertie really know who he was and make such a stupid mistake of being photographed with him. Did he lie when he said that he didn’t know him? Also possibly more worrying.
However, a spokesman for the Taoiseach said the contact with the EPA was initiated on behalf of residents living in the East Wall area of Dublin, who were having problems with a waste facility belonging to Mr Moriarty’s company, Swacliffe Ltd, which traded as Dublin Waste.
The spokesman said that although letters relating to both contacts were signed by Mr Ahern, they were written by constituency staff and the Taoiseach was unaware of their contents.
Is the Taoiseach in the habit of signing stuff he does not read. If he didn’t know the contents of that who is to say he wouldn’t sign something more serious without reading it.?
Bertie has a track record of signing things without reading them, remember those cheques he signed for Charlie?
ALAN RUDDOCK,ONE OF OUR SMARTEST POLITICAL COMMENTATORS, RECENTLY HEADLINED HIS ARTICLE: “BERTIE: MORAL MIDGET AND ETHICAL PYGMY.”
I THINK THAT SAYS IT ALL.
never one to defend ould bertie i must say that if one has to write to his constituency office about any matter the acknowledgement letter is rubber stamped with his name ” bertie”
his staff are working flat out dealing with issues.
I realise this is no trivial matter and as he calls there on a daily basis one has to make up ones own mind whether he was told about this non-trivial matter.
I find it hard to believe that he jumped at an opening for a photo-shoot in the middle of his holliers without an advisor sussing it out first. Or is that just the male ego thing ?
couldnt resist it. Could be one of a long line of banana skins …….
John Downing in his book on Bertie wrote that the office does something like 700 representations a week.
I appreciated the photo-op for the fashion tip it gave me that short-sleeved shirts are now OK to wear.
I’ve heard it said that if you lose your bus pass; false teeth or your pension book, de Bert is your only man.
A midget, performing pygmy tasks.
SOS
I would like to be stuck on a packed bus or in a pension queue with an old moaner like you!
On a related matter, I’m not sure which of the following is less credible — Frank McDonald making repeated home visits to quaff wine with Charles Haughey, or Mr Haughey changing his view of Bertie from being ‘the most skilful, most cunning, most devious’ to being the ‘worst Taoiseach ever’. The two views seem not congruent, even allowing for the passage of time.
frank is right
how incongrous it must have been for all those hangers -on frank mc donald vincent browne and a load of others pretending to understand cj haughey – getting to know him etc etc
what was all that about ?
no marks there, we all know -its about themselves- and the next book they publish using their visits as part of the selling ploy – we used to say that people plumbed the depths but that crowd were plumbing the shallows …. is there no lenghts to which they wouldnt go – apparently not- vincent browne destroyed his own credibility
id say haughey was laughing up his sleeve at all of them
this reminds me of when emily o reilly published a book on veronica geurin and the fallout from journalists was so great against o reilly you knew for certain that she got hers to the editor quicker than they did – the only one who gave her decent airspace was eamon dunphy
Frank,
I can think of no reason why you would want to be stuck in a queue with an old moaner.
If you have lost your false teeth, call Bertie. He is the god of small things.
In matters of national importance, he has consistently shown himself as incompetent, inconsistent and incapable of taking the decisions a Prime Minister is elected to take.
TO LEAD – BOTH BY ACTION AND BY EXAMPLE.
Perhaps it’s as well he spends so much time abroad, doing the Foreign Minister’s job.
In matters where he has neither power nor responsibility – foreign affairs – he waffles eloquently & poses well.
Pity about the trousers.
I can only guess that you’re referring to the colourful trousers Bertie wore to outshine the other world leaders at the Georgia G8 Summit in 2004. At the time Bertie said “I had to put a bit of colour into the place”.
The Sunday Independent reported ‘The G8 leaders were advised to dress down for the walk along Sea Island beach. The rest of the world leaders interpreted this as taking off their ties. Germany’s Gerhard Schroeder wore a black suit with a white shirt, George Bush went for traditional tweed, Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi was predictably stylish in a sober suit, as was France’s Jacques Chirac.
Tony Blair was the only other leader to opt for a light jacket, but he carried it off with dark trousers and a crisp white shirt cut neatly on his slimline figure. Mr Ahern normally takes advice from Ireland’s leading designer of menswear, but Louis Copeland was on holiday last week.
His brother and business partner Adrian Copeland admitted the offending outfit was from Louis Copeland’s collection. “He did get that from us” ‘
As I recall, Gerhard Schroeder even denied adding colour to his hair.