D Day for Bertie

[StephenF]

The ultimate Teflon man, Bertie Ahern, Teaseoch or Prime Minister of Ireland is due to testify at a Tribunal about his financial affairs this week.  His implausible explanations of lodgements in his accounts is about to be exposed.  Will he dodge this bullit once again?  Will this bring Fianna Fail to a crisis?  The new Ireland reeks with corrupt money.   There is virtual one party rule in Ireland.  It is corrupt.  Do the Irish have the guts to face it?  I doubt it.  You would have to be a fool to believe Bertie's version of how the money got to him.  Any old flame Fianna Failers out  here?  Labour to save the day?    

[Ger]

I remember referring to the bould Charlie Haughey as the Teflon Taoiseach, back in the day.  R.I.P. Charlie.

I have no political loyalties, and no faith in tribunals to actually achieve anything. 

You wouldn't believe how the first week back at school, including getting the last of six started at school, can take up every minute and scrap of your energy and leave very little interest in that week's current affairs!  What happened to my plans to do the school run then go to 10.00 a.m. Mass each day?  My feet barely touched the ground all week.

I don't detect much hope from you that they will make anything stick to Bertie this week.........

[Ger]

In the early nineties I was PA to a couple of directors of a large construction company.  The Temple Bar area in Dublin was about to be developed and a sort of celebration or opening happened one morning, we were all there, and I suddenly found myself behind a jazz band in procession, photographers snapping away .... on my left was Charlie.  He shook my hand, click click went the cameras.  I remember my boss, who wasn't exactly pro-Haughey, teasing me saying, 'Can I shake the hand that shook the hand?'  LOL.  Front page of the next day's Irish Times.  15 nanoseconds of fame.

He was smaller than me, and that's small.

[StephenF]

I cannot match your moment of fame with Charlie but just last April I ran into Edna Kenny in Killarney and was snapped by a photographer as I shook his hand.  He has nice hair, coiffed to perfection.  The picture appeared in some local publication.  I told him I was first time voter in Ireland and was inclined to Labour. Think of it, a few votes the other way and Edna would be Teoseoch and Rabitte would be Taniste.  May turn out that way after all sans Pat... (I think I do not know how to spell in Irish)...  

[Ger]

Enda reportedly declared that no government he headed would introduce abortion.

DH told the Labour canvasser he wouldn't vote Labour because they were pro-abortion.  Said canvasser was stunned.  'You'd not vote Labour because of THAT?'