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 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.
Daily Referendum (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
From William Hill: TONY BLAIR FAVOURITE TO BE NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE EUROPEAN COUNCIL BOOKMAKERS William Hill have installed Tony Blair as clear 6/4 favourite to become the next President of the European Council. 'Mr Blair is the clear front-runner to land the post of President of the European Council, and he has been by far the best backed contender so far' said Hill's spokesman Graham Sharpe. William...
SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
By LIAM CLARKE News Letter 29 September 2009 I'M looking forward to reading Bertie Ahern's forthcoming autobiography, but, judging by the excerpts serialised at the weekend, he may be retailing a few myths about Northern Ireland which don't quite bear scrutiny . He asserts, for instance, that the peace process would have moved farther and further if Mo Mowlam had remained Secretary of State and not...
Three Thousand Versts of Loneliness (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
It is hardly every day that one feels compelled to defend Peter Mandelson. However, when he is accused of ignorance and obnoxiousness by a purveyor of sentimental Irish American drivel its hard not to feel a pang of sympathy for Labour’s ‘dark lord’. Niall O’Dowd criticises Mandelson’s conduct as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, endorsing Bertie Ahern’s contention...
SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 09/27/2009
Sarah McInerney The Sunday Times September 27, 2009 Bertie Ahern claims the peace process would have progressed faster if Mo Mowlam had stayed on as Northern Ireland secretary, claiming that neither of her successors, Peter Mandelson nor John Reid, “worked out” . “We never really hit it off with Mandelson. Talks with him were always heavy weather. Partly it was his manner, which was...
SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
The purportedly pacifist nationalist group positions itself to the left of Sinn Féin, but some smell a conspiracy theory, writes Conor McMorrow, Political Correspondent Conor McMorrow Tribune.ie **Via Newshound August 9, 2009 Members of socialist republican group éirigí outside St Luke's in Drumcondra, Dublin, the constituency headquarters of former taoiseach Bertie Ahern, protesting...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 08/08/2009
FORMER TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern said when he left office last year Ireland was a “long way” better than it was when he started in politics.
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