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Bertie Ahern digs deep on 14th anniversary of Good Friday agreement (IrishCentral)

Sun, 08 Apr 2012 04:57:52 PDT

By: PATRICK COUNIHAN

Disgraced former Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern enjoyed another Good Friday agreement this year – with a vegetable plot.

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

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:34:34 PDT

By: BERNIE MALONE

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.

Bertie Ahern loses out on high-paid US speech gigs after Mahon Tribunal findings (IrishCentral)

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 04:39:10 PDT

By: KERRY O'SHEA

Bertie Ahern, disgraced in the wake of the findings of The Mahon Tribunal, was removed from the prestigious Washington Speakers Bureau list this week. The removal comes just days after Ahern held what was described to be an “inspirational” talk in Nigeria.

The Herald reports that with his removal from the Washington Speakers Bureau, Ahern is no longer included with the likes of other former heads of state Tony Blair, George W. Bush and John Major. Ahern had remained listed after the release of the Mahon Tribunal, but now recently is no longer available.

Bertie Ahern and the Irish Banana Republic (IrishCentral)

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 07:15:15 PDT

Then Taoiseach Charles Haughey with Bertie Ahern in 1992 They used to call Bertie Ahern the Teflon Taoiseach You could throw plenty of mud at him but it none of it would ever stick Well, that's all changed now after the publication last week of the tribunal of inquiry into corruption in planning here The Mahon Tribunal -- named after the judge who was chairing it -- found that former Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Ahern had repeatedly lied about the source of £215,000 Irish pounds in cash that passed through his bank accounts in the 1990s READ MORE

The Deep Throat emigrant who doomed Bertie Ahern and exposed political corruption (IrishCentral)

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 04:39:17 PDT

By: FRANK CONNOLLY

Frank Connolly was the journalist who originally broke the story about corruption at the highest level in Irish politics. He was vilified and threatened, but now the Mahon report has confirmed his findings about what he first wrote about in 1999. Here is his expose on how it all came about.

Ex-Irish Premier Bertie Ahern's spectacular fall mirrors Ireland's (IrishCentral)

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 10:15:08 PDT

Former Irish Prime MinisterBertie AhernBertie Ahern's name is mud The former Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) was named and shamed in a report published last week by the judge who headed the 15-year-long tribunal into corruption in the planning process here Since then Ahern's name has been more spat out than spokenAll of this would have seemed almost unthinkable a few years ago READ MORE

Enda Kenny: Government will consider pulling corrupt politicians massive pensions (IrishCentral)

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 05:00:45 PDT

By: CATHY HAYES

Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Enda Kenny has said the Irish Government will consider denying pensions to politicians found to be corrupt.

The Bertie Ahern scandal and The Mahon Tribunal -- a guide to what has happened (IrishCentral)

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 05:03:46 PDT

By: KERRY O'SHEA

The Mahon Tribunal ruled on Thursday that former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern received $276,000 in secret payments while in office. According to the findings, Ahern repeatedly lied about the secret payments he received while under oath. Ahern, however, was not found guilty of corruption after it couldn’t be proven that he gave favors to any of his cash donors when he was finance minister in the 1990s.

Former Prime Minister Bertie Ahern could face jail time after Tribunal corruption allegations sent to police (IrishCentral)

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 04:34:44 PDT

By: PATRICK COUNIHAN

Former Prime Minister Bertie Ahern could face seven years in jail for perjury charges after evidence he had lied were forwarded to police authorities.

The shameful truth behind the Mahon Tribunal - report a whitewash and a waste of time and money (IrishCentral)

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 06:30:20 PDT

Bertie AhernAfter a decade and a half of foreplay the one thing the findings of the Mahon tribunal have underlined is that we have all been taken for a rideHow can any democracy justify squandering millions of euro on the biggest investigation into corruption the state has ever witnessed to tell us all what the dogs the in street have known for years?Not that it comes as a huge surprise, but the minimum most people were expecting was for former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern to be officially tarred and featheredHowever, simply stating Bertie “failed to truthfully account for” a wedge of cash that passed though bank accounts connected with him is hardly the knockout blow to his reputation many were hoping forIt would be any spin doctor’s daydream to have such unspecific language used against their client READ MORE

Former Prime Minister Bertie Ahern gave false evidence says Mahon Tribunal investigation (IrishCentral)

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 04:29:39 PDT

By: JAMES O'SHEA

The former Taoiseach of Ireland (Prime Minister) Bertie Ahern has bee accused of lying about how money was paid into his bank accounts during the early 1990s by the Mahon Tribunal which investigated his financial dealings.

Enda axes former Taoisigh expenses - but too late to reclaim Bertie's €367,000 windfall (IrishCentral)

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 12:30:16 PST

The beginning of Bertie's acting careercoincided nicely with the expenses regime Taoiseach Enda Kenny has followed through on his commitment to streamlining public costs and cutting back on prime ministerial excess, but not in time to prevent former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern from claiming €367,000 in 'expenses' since leaving power in 2008The move will see a cutback in a wide range of formerly claimable 'expenses', which could be sought back by former heads of state: computer equipment, telephone costs and airport VIP facilities, are just some of the 'administrative' expenses cited by the Irish Times as having gotten the axeNews-aggregation service TheJournalie reports that the cuts also extend as far as personal cell-phones and (the main cutback) secretarial assistants READ MORE

Bertie Ahern told to pay his own phone bills as Enda Kenny cuts off privileges (IrishCentral)

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 05:10:38 PST

By: CATHAL DERVAN

The Irish taxpayer has finally enjoyed revenge on former Prime Minister Bertie Ahern – and taken his free mobile phone away.

Unhappy 60th for former Irish leader Bertie Ahearn (IrishCentral)

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 01:32:38 PDT

By: PADDY CLANCY

Just two former Cabinet ministers attended a glitzy party at Croke Park in Dublin for former Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Bertie Ahern’s 60th birthday.

Will we ever know the truth about the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks? (IrishCentral)

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 05:20:07 PDT

Then Taoiseach Bertie Ahern at the US Embassy in Dublin in 2002We all remember where we were at that awful moment, on that awful day, September 11, 2001 READ MORE

Embarrassed Fianna Fail rank and file ready to cast Bertie Ahern aside (IrishCentral)

Fri, 02 Sep 2011 04:58:32 PDT

By: CATHAL DERVAN

Former Irish PM Bertie Ahern is to be cast aside by the Fianna Fail party who once idolized him according to reports on Friday.

Bertie Ahern lashes Mahon Tribunal findings before he even sees report (IrishCentral)

Mon, 29 Aug 2011 05:26:09 PDT

By: CATHAL DERVAN

Former Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern has got his revenge in first ahead of the publication of the Mahon Tribunal – as controversy grows over his lavish expense claims since he quit politics.

Clueless Bertie Ahern and Brian Cowen handled Irish economy like 'drunken joyriders'' (IrishCentral)

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 04:33:30 PDT

By: CATHAL DERVAN

Disgraced Prime Ministers Bertie Ahern and Brian Cowen have been accused of handling Ireland’s Celtic Tiger economy like ‘intoxicated joyriders’ by a leading academic.

Former PM Bertie Ahern earns $40,000 a pop lecturing in U.S. (IrishCentral)

Wed, 27 Jul 2011 05:12:18 PDT

By: CATHAL DERVAN

Former Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern is charging American companies a small fortune – to lecture them on how he transformed the now bankrupt Irish economy!

Bertie Ahern - a leader who fled a sinking ship (IrishCentral)

Mon, 10 Jan 2011 03:15:02 PST

Prior to the 2007 general election, it felt like it was going to be a line-in-the-sand election of the 1948 variety But, instead of the ‘48 outcome, where the other parties (and the public at large) grew so weary of the long reign of the Fianna Fáil government that they all banded together to heave them out of office, something else happened That thing was Bertie AhernEven though his personal finances wouldn’t have been out of place in 1920’s Chicago, and even though he and his government ran the country in a fashion so lackadaisical it was almost Zen-like, on the two central acid tests of the election (the North and the economy) Bertie was deemed to have passed with a push and prevented the opposition from winning what should have been a slam dunk of an election READ MORE