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THEN TAOISEACH BERTIE AHERN coming out of Dublin Castle in 2008 after giving evidence to the Mahon Tribunal.
The findings of the Tribunal were published today. The Bertie section is analysed in Part 10 of Chapter 2, here.
(Image: Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)
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There must be jail terms here or all this was for nothing.
In your dreams Marcas. When have the citizens ever been a priority for the political/legal professions?
400 million and 15 years for report – we are all being taken for a ride it’s disgusting and shows the true robbers are the judiciary and the likes ! WE WON’T STAND FOR THIS !
what annoys me is that they are concentrating on Bertie yet a whole clatter of councillors from all parties are named and are guilty of taking bribes yet they are not highlighted…. I say name and shame the lot and not just Bertie….
Hi Martin,
A large portion of the report is indeed taken up with Bertie Ahern’s finances but you are quite right – there are others who are found to have taken corrupt payments (the report stopped short of saying Ahern was corrupt).
We have also done individual pieces on them, in case you would like to read more, on Frank Dunlop, Liam Lawlor and Padraig Flynn, for example.
We have named the five councillors that can be named out of the 11 found to have taken corrupt payments (the others are still involved in court cases and can’t be legally named until those are over): http://www.thejournal.ie/corrupt-payments-to-councillors-were-abuse-of-democratic-system-mahon-392379-Mar2012/
If you want to see the full list of analysis from today, you can click here: http://www.thejournal.ie/topic/mahon/
Thanks a mill,
Susan, Editor, TheJournal.ie
The best Snake Oil salesman the Country has ever seen
He couldn’t have done it without the help of the scumbags in his party and who’ll forget McDowell nodding away as Bertie explained away payments with fanciful terms.
Ahern may have been the salesman, but there were plenty of his friends and party colleagues that bottled and made the snake oil.
On another topic is anyone going to ask M. Martin if he is going to return the payments he received from Eoin o’Callaghan. In case he does not remember, they are ones that ended up in his wife’s bank account. Do the decent thing for once Martin!
nero fiddled while rome burned
Actually Nero did allot better than Bertie, he organised relief work and tried hard to put out the fires, for the victims of the fire he provided food and relief funds, as for fiddling I do believe he played the lyre :D….. Bertie’s just a wanker though !!
Normally pics of him make my skin crawl. This one not so much, think its because that mic lead is positioned so nicely, reminds me of a hang mans noose !
thats the point !
He will worm his way out of this – as he has always done. The lot of them should be locked up and some serious reforms need to be implemented, otherwise this report has been another waste of taxpayers money
The Good Friday Agreement and all he did for the north peace process is gone out the Door. Bertie Ahearn will be remembered solely for this. The Office of Taoiceach has been Tarnished.I see that Developer Owen O Callaghan is going for a judicial review on the issue where the Tribunal concerns him.Busy days ahead for the Media.
The nations reaction to this reminds me of a scene from the film, “History of the World”.
“Taoiseach, the peasants are revolting.”
“Eh, you’re right dere Micheal, they stink”.
Whoever/photographer took the picture that shows on this thread (aherne being interviewed by a number of journalists) should get an award!
The electric cable looks like an noose around aherne’s neck! Little slithering snake.
He is rotten to the core , jail is not a option . The people in our jails are not as nasty as this man & should not be exposed to him
Pity there wasn’t a target in the middle of it
The poem September 1913 comes to mind…
the ball is now in the governments court! I hope we see a referral to the DPP
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