Blog Posts about Irish TDs - (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
Mr McGuinness claimed this analysis was supported by recent comments from former taoiseach Bertie Ahern and British prime minister Gordon Brown “If partnership government is beyond the DUP then it will fall to the two governments to …... Continue reading »
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
THE LARGE severance payments paid to retiring ministers, including a €68,000 sum to former taoiseach Bertie Ahern, does little for the credibility of politicians at a time they are calling for cutbacks, a senior member of the Opposition has contended.
Views from the Emerald Isle (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
The Department of Finance has confirmed that former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern (right) is now receiving approximately € 68,000 in 'severance pay' following his resignation earlier this year. When Ahern stepped down in May eventually, he lost of course - along with other things - his Taoiseach's allowance, which amounts to around € 185,000 per annum. So now Irish taxpayers are giving him (through the Dept....
Blog Posts about Irish TDs - (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
(left), the former leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) in the North, has clashed with former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern over the devolution of policing and justice powers to the Northern government at Stormont. …... Continue reading »
Blog Posts about Irish TDs - (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
I think it’s the fact that Bertie Ahern told George Hook in a radio interview that he wants to be addressed as “Iar-Taoiseach”, meaning “Former Taoiseach” that has finally driven me over the edge regarding this ineffable man. …... Continue reading »
Blog Posts about Irish TDs - (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
On 30 January, Bertie Ahern went to Brussels and agreed a 10% devaluation. Tansey had won. He was a great warrior and it was great to serve with him. Ireland was lucky to have him. Rory Godson is a former deputy editor of the Sunday …... Continue reading »
Views from the Emerald Isle (Free subscription) | 27/09/2008
Ian Paisley Sr. (left), the former First Minister in the North and leader of the DUP ( Democratic Unionist Party ), has clashed with the former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern over the devolution of policing and justice powers to the Northern government at Stormont. Paisley, who retired from frontline politics in June, spoke out after Bertie Ahern said that Unionists were "stepping outside the terms of the...
Redemption's Son (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
Former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has lunged ( two-footed and studs-showing ) into the current wrangle over the devolution of Policing & Justice to the Northern Ireland Assembly. I could understand the imperative from the Irish Government to try and speed up the completion of devolution; I can even, to some extent, understand why they feel the need to back up Sinn Fein in their call for the final block...
Tangled Blog (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
Bertie Ahern...what a guy. The former Irish PM who had to stand down from office owing to a little ..ahem.. financial irregularity in his private affairs IS a likeable guy in my view. I consider him to have been an effective PM, a sharp businessman and a genuine leader. That said, I obviously do not agree with all of his politics! In particular, his attempt to re-write the Belfast Agreement and its...
SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
BBC 25 Sept 2008 Former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has stepped into the row over the political deadlock at Stormont. Mr Ahern has stepped into the row over the political deadlock at Stormont. Mr Ahern said the existence of the IRA army council was not a precondition to the transfer of policing and justice powers to Stormont. He said the DUP was "well aware" of the British and Irish governments' commitment...
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
The Republic of Ireland’s economy is now officially in recession after a second successive quarter of negative growth and, as he told the BBC’s Noel Thompson, former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern is back to being a “constituency politician”.. Policing, and St Andrews, was dealt with at the beginning of the interview on Hearts and Minds today, by the end the discussion had moved on to the Lisbon Treaty , referenda,...
Belfast Telegraph (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
Former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has said the DUP should not be using the existence of the IRA army council to block the devolution of policing and justice.
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
Former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has been speaking out again about what he thought he had delivered at St Andrews [I should have the video later]. But it’s not exactly what he told Frank Millar previously. According to the BBC report [Ahern] said the DUP was “well aware” of the British and Irish governments’ commitment to the deadline for such a transfer. “It should have been long done by this stage,”...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
Former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern says the transfer of policing and justice powers in NI should have been done by this stage.
Blog Posts about Irish TDs - (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
Apparently Cecila Ahern, author of entertaining chick-lit books (eg “PS, I Love You”) and woeful chick-flicks (eg 'PS, I Love You'), has no interest in penning a biography of her father, amnesiac scoundrel, Bertie Ahern. Quoth Celia: …... Continue reading »
