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Twitter users go to town as Mahon Tribunal proves Bertie Ahern corrupt

#BertieFilms hashtag puts Irish imagination into overdrive

BERNIE MALONE,

IrishCentral Staff Writer

Published Saturday, March 31, 2012, 7:52 AM

Updated Saturday, March 31, 2012, 7:52 AM

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Graffiti featuring Bertie Ahern in Temple Lane, Dublin - The posters read "Crony 2012"

Photo by Dara MacDonaill

Although the Irish people are still angry over the findings of the Mahon Tribunal they’ve venting their rage through comedy in the form of inventive movie titles on Twitter.

Last week Bertie Ahern, Ireland’s former Minister for Finance and former Taoiseach, was found by the Mahon Tribunal to have lied about massive sums of cash which had been lodged into his personal accounts.

Hundreds of Twitter users went online this week and entered their ideas for the #BertieFilms hastag, coming up in a title for the former leaders biopic.

The winner so far is Geraldine Rock with “PS I Scammed You”. This is in reference to Ahern’s daughter’s first book, Ceclia Aherne’s “PS I Love You” which was made into a movie starring Hilary Swank and Gerard Bulter.

Other front runners were Rommel Burke’ “Lost in Transaction” and “Silence of the Scams” by Shane Coogan.

The top 20 Bertie Ahern tweets:

1. Geraldine Rock - P.S. I Scammed You, Lie Another Day, and Admission Impossible
2. Rommel Burke - Lost in Transaction
3. Shane Coogan - Silence of the Scams
4. Colm Tobin - Paranormal Accountancy and Debt Becomes Him
5. Sara Silke - Bertie, Rotten Scoundrel
6. Squid - The Men Who Stare At Pound Notes
7. Damien O'Connor - Get Rich or Lie Trying and There Will Be Flood
8. Stephen Flanagan - It Was A Wonderful Life
9. Trevor Golden - The Liar, The Snitch and the Wardrobe.
10. Caitríona Nic Góráin - The Good, The Bad, and The Bertie
11. Nat King Coleslaw - I Went Down
12. Jim Sheridan - Take The Money And Run
13. thisispopbaby - The Lying King
14. ray martin - Lukes who's talking
15. Fiona Hanley - Honey I Shrunk The GDP
16. Hugh McMahon - Moneyball
17. Owen Kennedy – Casablancheque
18. Lisa Gray - Liar Liar
19. Seán Ó Cualáin - The Quiet Mahon
20. Paraic Collins - Public Enemy

Source: Irish Independent

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IrelandNorth | Apr 02, 2012, 08:06 AM EDT

While humour is all fine and dandy, an unforseen consequence is that it sublimates popular protest against conspicuous wrongdoing such as this. Saw a (British) Sky TV report on the Cameron controversy (i.e. fees for dinner at #10 with PM), where one pro-journalist tried trivialising the debate with tongue-in-cheek smart alecism.

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BARNEYKX | Apr 01, 2012, 05:02 PM EDT

the thieveing B did more harm than Cromwell

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jacersagain | Apr 01, 2012, 07:18 AM EDT

I have no sympathies for Bertie Ahern but any media that – not once, as in Niall O’Dowd’s article re corrupt politicians in Ireland but a second time as above in Bernie Malone’s headliner – states clearly that that the Mahon Tribunal found Ahern guilty of corruption is publishing a outright lie. That means IrishCentral is open to a huge multi-million dollar libel suit in the US courts or elsewhere. Niall will be left as destitute as he was when he first became an illegal immigrant to the USA as a young man. I don’t know how Niall will get out of that situation... publishing a correction won’t stop Bertie's legal eagles going after IrishCentral, what with the damage already done... twice!

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PeterCUSA | Mar 31, 2012, 09:34 PM EDT

Congratulations! U jokers in Irish Central have probably let Bertie Ahern right off the hook. The fact is the Mahon Tribunal stopped short of calling Ahern corrupt because they had not got to the bottom of the payments to him. A headline like this is exactly what he wants!!!! Sloppy journalism.... Exactly like the reporting in Ireland where the Indo & Co. named Independent Pat Dunne as corrupt when in fact it was Fianna Fail's Pat Dunne (deceased) who was corrupt.

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Collette2 | Mar 31, 2012, 02:50 PM EDT

He probabley sent a bit over to the local bishops plate, as penance of course.

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ciaradexy | Mar 31, 2012, 02:04 PM EDT

The Mahon Tribunal didnt find him corrupt, it found he had told untruths.

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eiriamach | Mar 31, 2012, 09:09 AM EDT

Dirty Bertie, greedy Bertie, and now you are a Tweetee, Bertie! My choice from the list would be "Honey I Shrank The GDP." It's sad to think how much good that scammed money could have done in improving schools and public works.

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