Bertie Ahern

1. Former Irish PM Bertie Ahern gets (BS) artist tax break
   February 08, 10

   Determined to get every penny he can for his tell-nothing autobiography, the former Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Bertie Ahern applied to the Irish Republic's Tax Commission for a tax-break usually reserved for artists. And he got ...

2. Former Irish Prime Minister Bertie Bertie Ahern expects to go to heaven
   February 08, 10

   Former Prime Minister of Ireland Bertie Ahern has said that life “did not end at the graveyard," and he has firm hopes that he will go to heaven when he dies.

3. Ireland is a country with delusions of grandeur
   January 13, 10

   October 21, 2009, 3:14 PMWe went to see a Manchester United match at Old Trafford a couple of weeks ago. On the short flight over I was trying to explain to my teenage son why the Irish government is about to make huge cutbacks in state ...

4. Dentists and state workers clean up in Ireland as rest of us suffer economic crisis
   January 13, 10

   October 15, 2009, 8:52 AMLast week I brought my two 16-year-old sons (twins) for their six monthly dental check-up. Amazingly, in view of all the tooth destroying garbage they eat, no fillings were ...

5. Top five Irish scandals of the decade
   December 26, 09

   It was a decade when Ireland’s Celtic Tiger roared, then whimpered, then scuttled off with its tail between its legs to someplace far away. Other scandals, such as those involving the Catholic Church, have proved even more shocking. Here Irishcentral outlines events we wish had never happened, as we list just the top five scandals to plague the country this decade.

6. Chuck Feeney, Ireland's Secret Hero
   December 23, 09

   Posted by Niall O'Dowd at 5/16/2009 10:54 AM EDT I'm just back from Dublin where I met with Chuck Feeney, the American billionaire who has given all his money away, much of it to Ireland. I also had the chance to view the wonderful RTE program about his life and his incredible role in ...

7. Bertie Ahern makes a turkey out of himself over Dubai
   December 14, 09

   11/29/2009 12:48 PM Bertie Ahern was in Dubai last week for a meeting of the World Economic Forum. So what, says ...

8. Peter Mandelson: The most obnoxious pol ever
   December 14, 09

   09/27/2009 08:55 PM I'm glad that former Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Bertie Ahern tells the truth about Peter Mandelson in his upcoming biography. Ahern says Mandelson held up the peace process when he was Northern Secretary and was essentially a waste of ...

9. Indians and Irish at White House Pow Wow
   December 07, 09

   Posted by Niall O'Dowd at 3/24/2009 4:01 PM EDT Who is Jonathan Windy Boy and why was he invited to the White House on St.Patrick’s night when a large numbers of leaders in the Irish American community were ...

10. Angry students protest as former Irish Prime Minister becomes professor
    December 03, 09

    Angry students have launched protests at the National University of Ireland (NUI) in Maynooth over the appointment of former Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern as a visiting professor in mediation and conflict studies.