SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Suzanne Breen Tribune.ie November 15, 2009 **Via Newshound A republican facing extradition for questioning about the murder of a British Army recruitment sergeant in Derby 17 years ago has accused the authorities of “cherry-picking” whom they try to extradite . Anthony Gorman, who is living in Co Cavan, said he suspected Sinn Féin’s influence prevented similar action being...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
THE MAHON tribunal is seeking the substantial legal costs of its failed three-year battle for a court order requiring Irish Times Editor Geraldine Kennedy and Public Affairs Correspondent Colm Keena to answer questions relating to the source of an article about financial payments to former taoiseach Bertie Ahern.
ireland.com (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Sculptures of Bertie Ahern at the Mahon tribunal and HSE chief executive Brendan Drumm wielding a guillotine form part of two new exhibitions casting a wry look at Irish society.
Politics.ie (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Obama?s Nobel Prize makes no sense, says Ahern | Irish Examiner...
David Lindsay (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Why not? A native English-speaker who has been in Washington for a while, but from a country which is in the Eurozone and wasn't in the Iraq War. The two main Irish parties are notoriously difficult to place on any normal ideological spectrum, but "Christian Democrat" is not a bad description of either, and perhaps especially of Fine Gael. Within that, Bruton has a proven record of being...
North to Leith (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Strap in because this is a very long post... In my last post I said if you were lucky I’d tell you who I think will, and who I think should, get the job as President of the European Council. Well you lucky things here it is... From all the speculation as to who might get the post there are 22 riders who are considered contenders. Who? F/I Position Nation Bertie Ahern Former PM Ireland Jose-Maria...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
INDEPENDENT TD Maureen O’Sullivan has accused former taoiseach Bertie Ahern of claiming credit for the 1982 Gregory Deal in his recently published autobiography.
The Grumpy Spindoctor (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
Putting to one side the comments last weekend by former Irish taoiseach Bertie Ahern, that breaking away from the UK was “easier said than done”, yesterday at the fantasyfest that passes for an SNP conference, Stewart Hosie MP raised the notion of an 'arc of recovery'. (One would have thought that after the carcrash that was their 'arc of prosperity', they would have steered well clear...
Financial Times (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Bertie Ahern, Ireland's former prime minister, says that his decision to create a new financial regulator in response to a string of scandals weakened the banking sector
Time (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
The former Irish Taoiseach talks to TIME about his old job, his new memoir and Obama's Nobel Peace Prize
The Dyda Dispatches (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
Irish gambling firm Paddy Power has tipped Tony Blair to become the first EU president. The odds are as follows: Tony Blair 4/6 Jan Peter Balkenende 4/1 Jean-Claude Juncker 11/2 Anders Fogh Rasmussen 6/1 Jacques Chirac 33/1 Bertie Ahern 50/1 Silvio Berlusconi 100/1 No odds have been set on Vaclav Klaus ratifying the Lisbon Treaty.
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
HE MAY not have attracted quite as large a crowd as ageing rocker Ozzy Osbourne for his book signing in Dublin at the weekend, but Bertie Ahern still drew the faithful.
ireland.com (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has led this morning’s tributes to Stephen Gately who was found dead in his holiday home in Majorca early on Saturday morning.
Archbishop Cranmer (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
One is always inclined to believe the worst of one's religio-political opponents. If they are renowned for their bigotry, it makes sense to keep the coals hot with a few apocryphal stories to justify one's own bigotry. Cherie Blair has told a packed Town Hall at the Cheltenham Literature Festival: "From beginning to end Ian Paisley never shook my hand. His wife would but Ian Paisley wouldn't because...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
FORMER TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern has said the country was “in safe hands” when he was taoiseach and Charlie McCreevy was minister for finance.
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