Comments on: Bertie Ahern signs for the News of the World

By: Ned Kinsella

Ned Kinsella — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 21:28:06 +0000

Surely Bertie should be Racing Correspondent and tipster seeing as he could, according to his own sworn testimony to the tribunal, go to Manchester and come back with tens of thousands of pounds in cash after getting lucky on the horses. It seems he couldn’t back a winner here though.
The poor bookies of Manchester mustn’t have an arse left in their trousers.
Boycott the rag that employs this gombeen.

By: hugh glenn

hugh glenn — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 13:35:48 +0000

bert the cert a total crook who should be in jail a thief and a liar

By: Jason

Jason — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:26:47 +0000

Berti Ahern should not be writing for any news paper, the man was involved in a tribunal in this country paid for by the tax payer and he made a mockery of it. He also still to todate cant explain how he was signing blank cheques and had no bank account as the minister for finance ? the man is a crook !

By: Ferrari

Ferrari — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:02:21 +0000

Very interesting article, thank you.
You’ve got a great website at all

By: Anne

Anne — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 23:07:13 +0000

Why are we paying for this eegit(who robbed us as Charlie did before him) to have round the clock drivers. The drivers are all gardai who should be on the streets protecting us and all being paid a fortune to drive him and the other ministers around. Let them get public transport or taxis like the rest of us. This would help towards Brian Lenihans 4 billion.
Anne

By: sos

sos — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 09:30:39 +0000

dis is a great moment for me, a big check every week to add to me tree pensions an de digouts an d’other freebies.
Tanks lads, I’ll see if I can push somethin your way.

By: Tomaltach

Tomaltach — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:21:24 +0000

This says quite a lot about Bertie. A passion for sport is laudable and if an ex-Taoiseach were to genuinely get involved – say as patron of a sports organisation or chairing some worthy group – or such, then it would be perfectly plausable.

That Bertie – once our chief statesman and chief – would sell his name to a dung rag shows how robust are his ethics. He will probably get the odd call and of course everything will be prompted and fully written up by a ghost writer (poor writer – what he picks up from Bertie will never be intelligible as comment anyway and will have to be composed more or less from scracht) Essentially it is just what I say — selling his name. Shabby indeed.

By: Harry Leech

Harry Leech — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 22:20:30 +0000

While Mark’s perfectly correct to point out that ‘very poor grammar’ and ‘complete lack of knowledge’ about a subject are the very domain on which Bertie has built a career upon, surely this is what qualifies him perfectly to write for the ‘News of the Screws’ (Ireland!)?

Anything less and their readers would get confused…

By: Cian

Cian — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:58:25 +0000

I cannot wait to see his first offering. I am trying some versions of my own and might share if happy with them. Oh this will be great – going to have to get someone to buy it everyweek so we can all enjoy the insights of our dear iar-taoiseach. Wonder which sunglasses are best for games at croker?

By: Mark Coughlan

Mark Coughlan — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:05:45 +0000

Em… as far as I know, I know it pretty well I reckon – in golf you don’t “lift majors”, you lift the Claret Jug, the PGA Trophy, the US Open or wear the green jacket. You “win” majors and lift, or wear, the respective prize. To say “Let’s hope I end up writing about… Padraig Harrington lifting a few more Majors”, is either very poor grammar or shows a complete lack of knowledge about golf. Neither of which would I put past our Bert.