Bertie Ahern

• What seems to have gone unnoticed in Ireland is that the removal of Bertie Ahern from his bunker in north Dublin represents a great loss to the Irish language. During his time there, Drumcondra became almost 100pc Irish-speaking as a result of his unrelenting enthusiasm for the language he loves. While other politicians were feathering their own nests, Bertie was selflessly creating the first true suburban Gaeltacht.  

Former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has announced his resignation from Fianna Fáil, in the wake of a corruption inquiry which found he did not tell the truth about cash payments. The tribunal was set up by Fianna Fáil government to probe alleged corruption.  

Telegraph.co.ukBertie Ahern resigns from Fianna Fáil‎ in wake of corruption inquiryTelegraph.co.ukFormer taoiseach Bertie Ahern tonight resigned from his political party in the wake of a corruption inquiry, but insisted the findings of the probe had dealt him a grave injustice. The Mahon Tribunal into the Republic of Ireland's planning process ...Bertie Ahern resigns from Fianna FáilThe GuardianReputations and politics in ruin but the...  

Former Irish prime minister Bertie Ahern is to resign from Fianna Fail in the wake of the Mahon Tribunal.  

A Thursday June 12, 2008, photo from files showing former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern casting his ballot in a polling centre in Dublin city centre.  

Disgraced former taoiseach Bertie Ahern last night announced he is quitting Fianna Fáil, the party he led for 14 years, to pre-empt an ignominious expulsion over the findings of the Mahon Tribunal. Ahern said he was resigning for ‘political reasons ...  

FORMER Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has handed over the keys to St Luke's and has vowed never to set foot again in the headquarters so closely associated with his career in politics.  

FORMER Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has handed over the keys to St Luke's and has vowed never to set foot again in the headquarters so closely associated with his career in politics.  

Bertie Ahern, the Prime Minister of Ireland visited the White House yesterday to commemorate St. Patrick's Day. Mr. Ahern makes this visit annually, for what he calls a "very substantial and useful meeting." Mr. Ahern started his speech by saying "Mr ...  

Former Irish prime minister Bertie Ahern said he had resigned from the Fianna Fail party over a furore surrounding his finances during his near decade at the helm of the country.  

FORMER Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has handed over the keys to St Luke's and has vowed never to set foot again in the headquarters so closely associated with his career in politics.  

The former Taoiseach of Ireland (Prime Minister) Bertie Ahern has bee accused of lying about how money was paid into his bank accounts during the early 1990s by the Mahon Tribunal which investigated his financial dealings. On Thursday morning ...  

Mr Flynn resigned from the Fianna Fáil party at the end of March after the release of Mahon Tribunal Report prompted the Fianna Fáil parliamentary party propose a motion that he be expelled from the party, together with former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern.  

Disgraced former Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern enjoyed another Good Friday agreement this year – with a vegetable plot. Just 14 years after he signed the historic Good Friday peace accord in Belfast, Ahern was discovered hard at work in an ...  

Former Irish prime minister Bertie Ahern is to resign from Fianna Fail. In an article in Ireland's Sunday Independent newspaper, Mr Ahern said news of a motion to expel him from the party had "deeply saddened" him. On Thursday, the party said it would seek ...  

Irish political party Fianna Fail says it will seek to expel former leader and prime minister Bertie Ahern in the wake of the Mahon Tribunal.  

ScotsmanMahon tribunal: Bertie Ahern gave “untrue” evidenceScotsmanBy SHAWN POGATCHNIK Former Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern received at least (euro) 209779 in secret payments while in office and repeatedly told lies about this under oath, a mammoth fact-finding investigation has ruled. Three judges, led by Justice ...Former Irish PM Ahern lied over finances-inquiryReutersFormer Irish PM Ahern lied over finances - inquiryReuters UKFormer...  

The Irish government has asked the Irish police to look at the findings of a report into corruption in the Republic's planning process. The Mahon Tribunal found that former Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern failed to truthfully account for a number of ...  

The former Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, is to resign as a member of Fianna Fail, the political party he led for 14 years, but he has given his strongest indication yet that he intends to challenge the findings of the Mahon tribunal, which he has found to be "frustrating" and "incredulous".  

Former Prime Minister Bertie Ahern could face seven years in jail for perjury charges after evidence he had lied were forwarded to police authorities. Current Irish PM Enda Kenny has already forwarded the findings of the Mahon Tribunal to police ...  

Former taoiseach Bertie Ahern has resigned from his political party in the wake of a corruption inquiry, but insisted the findings of the probe had dealt him a grave injustice. The Mahon Tribunal into the country's planning process accused Mr Ahern, one of ...  

Former Irish prime minister Bertie Ahern has resigned from his political party in the wake of a corruption inquiry. The Mahon Tribunal into the Republic of Ireland's planning process accused Ahern, one of the architects of the Northern Ireland peace ...  

But it stopped short of accusing him of personally benefitting from wide-scale corruption surrounding his Fianna Fail party. After a 15 year inquiry, the Mahon tribunal reported on Wednesday with findings that the Fianna Fail party had "abused" power while ...  

Former Irish prime minister Bertie Ahern has resigned from his political party in the wake of a corruption inquiry. The Mahon Tribunal into the Republic of Ireland's planning process accused Ahern, one of the architects of the Northern Ireland ...  

The following is the full text of a statement issued by former taoiseach Bertie Ahern tonight, in response to the findings of the Mahon tribunal:  

DUBLIN - Former Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern received at least €209,779 ($276,000) in secret payments while in office and repeatedly lied about this under oath, a mammoth fact-finding judicial investigation ruled Thursday in a long-awaited verdict.  

FORMER Taoiseach Bertie Ahern is no longer listed as a speaker on the website of the prestigious Washington Speakers Bureau. Mr Ahern remained on the website as recently as this week, despite the findings of the Mahon Tribunal, which said he repeatedly ...  

DUBLIN - Former Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern received €209,779 ($276,000) in secret payments while in office and repeatedly told lies about this under oath, a mammoth fact-finding investigation ruled Thursday in a long-awaited verdict. The three ...  

The Mahon Tribunal ruled on Thursday that former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern received $276,000 in secret payments while in office. According to the findings, Ahern repeatedly lied about the secret payments he received while under oath. Ahern, however ...  

Bertie Ahern, the former Irish taoiseach, lied about secret payments into bank accounts connected to him, an inquiry has concluded.  

A POLITICAL MAFIA. Whilst the newspapers , radio and TV news bulletins are overflowing (and rightly so , in our opinion) with items concerning the connections between the findings of the Mahon Tribunal (’…endemic corruption in the body politic..’) - in which the Fianna Fáil party , in particular, is linked to [...]  

A corruption tribunal has said that former Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern “failed to tell the truth” about tens of thousands of pounds of secret payments he received in the early 1990s. The revelation came as the Mahon Tribunal published its ...  

DUBLIN - Former Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern received at least (EURO)209,779 ($276,000) in secret payments while in office and repeatedly lied about this under oath, a mammoth fact-finding judicial investigation ruled Thursday in a long ...  

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In an article today in Ireland’s Sunday Independent newspaper, Ahern said his decision to leave the party was a “political” move rather than an admission that he had lied about his past finances. The former Dublin politician was on the verge of being ...  

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SHAMED former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern is facing a potential €1m hit after the Mahon Tribunal found he repeatedly lied about the sources of €275,000 in his bank accounts. Between his tax liability from the mystery payments, the prospect of having to pay ...  

My friend Ciaran Byrne is right: If Rupert Murdoch owned Fianna Fail he'd close it down. The Mahon Tribunal's report into the flagrant corruption at the heart of the planning process in County Dublin is a very Irish scandal. It is not surprising that senior Fianna Fail politicians were on the take, yet the extent of their corruption remains revelatory. It's GUBU for the Celtic Tiger era.Now Bertie Ahern, the former Taoiseach once branded "the...  

Some aspects of his finances were bizarre,” Peelo said. During his testimony in 2007, Ahern admitted keeping most of the money in question in personal safes at his office and home from 1992 to 1994; failing to keep a personal bank account during much of ...  

Although the Irish people are still angry over the findings of the Mahon Tribunal they’ve venting their rage through comedy in the form of inventive movie titles on Twitter. Last week Bertie Ahern, Ireland’s former Minister for Finance and ...  

During his 15 days of testimony in 2007, Ahern admitted keeping most of the money in personal safes at his office and home from 1992 to 1994; failing to keep a personal bank account during much of the time under investigation; and paying no tax on any of ...  

Bertie Ahern, disgraced in the wake of the findings of The Mahon Tribunal, was removed from the prestigious Washington Speakers Bureau list this week. The removal comes just days after Ahern held what was described to be an “inspirational ...  

Former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has resigned from Fianna Fáil in the wake of the Mahon Tribunal.  

BERTIE Ahern's resignation from Fianna Fail is expected to spark a series of departures by other senior party figures criticised in the Mahon Tribunal's report.  

THE Mahon tribunal rejected Bertie Ahern's evidence on his banking and financial affairs.  

1345 Taoiseach Enda Kenny says he is surprised by the findings Mahon Tribunal ... 1120 In relation to the lodgement of £28,772.90 to a bank account of Celia Larkin on 5 December 1994, the source of the lodgement was not STG£30,000, as Bertie Ahern ...  

Bertie Ahern's former constituency headquarters, St Luke's, is to be handed over to the Fianna Fail party, the trustees announced tonight. In a statement released to RTÉ News the trustees - Joe Burke, Tim Collins and Des Richardson - said Mr Ahern had ...  

FIANNA Fail has confirmed that both Padraig Flynn has followed Bertie Ahern in sending a resignation letter to party headquarters. The former Taoiseach announced his resignation at the weekend ahead of a motion to expel him to be taken next Friday night.  

FIANNA Fail leader Micheal Martin will today face the biggest test of his leadership when he has to deal with the potentially explosive fallout of the probe into Bertie Ahern's personal finances. After 15 years of investigation, the Mahon Tribunal will ...  

Former developer Tom Gilmartin's allegation that Bertie Ahern had received money from Cork developer Owen O'Callaghan culminated in the then Taoiseach appearing before the tribunal. Mr Ahern was asked to explain a series of lodgements equivalent to at ...  

Visit Bertie Ahern's official website and you are immediately confronted by pictures of the former Taoiseach as peacemaker. There is Bertie with Tony Blair, Bertie clasping Ian Paisley's hand, Bertie alongside Kofi Annan, Gerry Adams and Jonathan Powell ...  

The former Taoiseach announced he was jumping before he was pushed. He said he was “deeply saddened” at the move to hold a meeting to kick him out next week. However, Ahern said his decision could not be seen as an admission of guilt and insisted he ...  

I NOTE the publication today of the Mahon Tribunal final report which are not the findings of a court of law.  

Bertie Ahern is set to be expelled from Fianna Fail - the party he led to three successive Irish general election victories. The party confirmed it was seeking his expulsion for "conduct unbecoming of a member of Fianna Fail." The party will ...  

Bertie Ahern is set to be expelled from Fianna Fail - the party he led to three successive Irish general election victories. The party confirmed it was seeking his expulsion for "conduct unbecoming of a member of Fianna Fail." The party will ...  

A day later he admitted receiving an envelope stuffed with £8,000 in £50 notes, unsolicited, after speaking at a function in a Manchester hotel in 1994 to a crowd of about 20 extremely wealthy Irish ex-pat businessmen ... on Dublin's O'Connell Street ...  

It was the worst of weeks for Bertie Ahern but there is one tiny ray of sunshine on the horizon for the disgraced former taoiseach. The Irish Mail on Sunday can exclusively reveal that his younger daughter, Cecelia, is expecting her second child – a ...  

Former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has resigned from Fianna Fáil in the wake of the Mahon Tribunal, but insisted the findings of the probe had dealt him a grave injustice.  

I note the publication today of the Mahon Tribunal Final Report which are not the findings of a court of law. At the outset, I want to make clear that I have had the great honour and privilege to serve as an elected politician for over 30 years. I have ...  

Enda Kenny has said the Mahon tribunal report confirms Bertie Ahern had made "a litany of unacceptable statements" about a labyrinth of cash payments. Bertie Ahern - the leader of three coalition governments - is now awaiting Fianna Fáil's verdict after ...  

Micheal Martin will also request of the executive the expulsion of Padraig Flynn and three former county councillors criticised in the Mahon Tribunal report. Mr Ahern's former constituency of Dublin Central will also undergo a reshuffle. Less than 12 hours ...  

Mahon Tribunal prevented from investigating Ray Burke payment Another thread speculated that recent attacks on RTE by the Sunday Independent were due to a generalised attack on the public sector, on relatively independent journalism in the publicly owned RTE during a period of recession, on disappointment at the election of Michael D Higgins and defeat for the right wing entrepreneur, Sean Gallagher (and the part played by RTE in exposing...  

Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin has said that the achievements of former taoiseach Bertie Ahern while in office "cannot absolve him" from facing the implications of the Mahon tribunal report.  

Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin has this evening recommended to his party that former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern be expelled from the party. Mr Martin released a statement following a meeting with the officer board of Fianna Fáil, saying that ...  

Harrises run riot - turn paper into crude propaganda sheet - like Murdoch's Sunday Times at its worst The Sunday independent is the paper that defended Bertie Ahern tooth and nail. This is the paper that helped him win the 2007 general election. This is the paper whose jaded star columnist, Eoghan Harris, denounced all and sundry who criticised Ahern and who Ahern appointed a Senator as a reward for his scribblings. This is the paper that...  

Fianna Fáil leader Micheal Martin is to propose motions to expel both former taoiseach Bertie Ahern and former minister and EU commissioner Padraig Flynn from the party following the publication of the final report of the Mahon tribunal. The tribunal ...  

MOSTLY, people age rapidly in office, but Bertie Ahern didn’t. The ageing has come with retirement: he’s whiter, fatter and sadder. The man who lived politics and needed no hinterland, finds himself bereft of meaning. The unknowable man, whose friends were his friends because they were part of Project Bertie, is strangely alone.  

MOSTLY, people age rapidly in office, but Bertie Ahern didn’t. The ageing has come with retirement: he’s whiter, fatter and sadder. The man who lived politics and needed no hinterland, finds himself bereft of meaning. The unknowable man, whose friends were his friends because they were part of Project Bertie, is strangely alone.  

Former taoiseach Bertie Ahern has lamented how “times have changed” for him as he awaits legal advice on whether to challenge the findings of the Mahon Tribunal.  

Bertie Ahern, Ireland's former Prime Minister, received at least €209,779 ($276,000) in secret payments while in office, lying about it repeatedly under oath, according to a judicial investigation. More from GlobalPost: Ireland falls back into ...  

Irish TimesBertie Ahern lied here: how to remember our disgraced taoisighIrish TimesAll would know Daniel O'Connell at one end, Charles Stewart Parnell at the other and James Larkin in between, but could they name their companions? Would many recognise William Smith O'Brien or Sir John Gray, or know why they are there?  

Another thread speculated that recent attacks on RTE by the Sunday Independent were due to a generalised attack on the public sector, on relatively independent journalism in the publicly owned RTE during a period of recession, on disappointment at the ...  

AFTER 15 years and millions of euro, the Mahon tribunal has confirmed for all who have failed to realise, we are truly living in a Banana Republic, writes Paul Allen.  

More resignations are expected from Fianna Fáil after the voluntary departure of former taoiseach Bertie Ahern and councillor John Hannon, who were facing expulsion following the publication of the planning tribunal’s final report.  

DUBLIN—Former Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern received at least (EURO)209,779 ($276,000) in secret payments while in office and repeatedly lied about this under oath, a mammoth fact-finding judicial investigation ruled Thursday in a long-awaited verdict.  

Frank Connolly was the journalist who originally broke the story about corruption at the highest level in Irish politics. He was vilified and threatened, but now the Mahon report has confirmed his findings about what he first wrote about in 1999.  

Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin has proposed that former taoiseach Bertie Ahern be expelled from the party, saying he “betrayed the trust” of the country and the political organisation. Mr Martin said the planning tribunal’s final report ...  

Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin has proposed that former taoiseach Bertie Ahern be expelled from the party, saying he “betrayed the trust” of the country and the political organisation.  

The 3,270-page report paints a damning picture of Ireland’s political culture, and has sent ripples of consternation through Irish society.  

Former taoiseach Bertie Ahern has resigned from Fianna Fáil in the wake of a corruption inquiry, but insisted the findings of the investigation had dealt him a grave injustice.  

The base of former taoiseach Bertie Ahern's constituency machine is to be handed back to Fianna Fail. The St Luke's headquarters in Drumcondra, north Dublin, had been held by a group of trustees who were close associates of Mr Ahern. A spokeswoman for ...  

Fianna Fáil's national executive this evening discussed leader Micheál Martin's intention to restructure the party branch in Bertie Ahern's former Dublin Central constituency and to transfer the branch’s assets, including the headquarters at St Luke ...  

Bertie Ahern faces a humiliating political end – expulsion from the party he once led along with corrupt former representatives Padraig Flynn and three ex-councillors. The three time taoiseach’s future as a party veteran will be decided next Friday in ...  

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has today given his reaction to the resignation of Bertie Ahern from Fianna Fáil.  

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WWW.CORRUPTIONINIRELAND.COM The Mahon Tribunal Report exposes endemic corruption in public life which was very evident for many years. Bertie Ahern had to deal with corruption surrounding the Charles Haughey era and now Micheal Martin has to deal with the corruption surrounding the Bertie Ahern era. The question is - is Micheal Martin going to break the systemic line of corruption or will the next leader of FF be dealing with his corruption...  

Fianna Fáil has not yet received any formal notification of Bertie Ahern's intention to leave the party. It emerged last night that the former Taoiseach is to quit the aprty after being a member for 40 years. The party's National Executive was ...  

Former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern shrugged off the Mahon Tribunal and his dramatic resignation from Fianna Fail with a family outing to Disneyland Paris accompanied by a woman identified by Irish tourists as his estranged wife Miriam. The family was ...  

Taoiseach Enda Kenny said an early reading of the Mahon tribunal revealed “corrupt practices” among a number of politicians and “sets out in very direct fashion the conduct of the former taoiseach” Bertie Ahern.  

Sightings of Bertie Ahern may be few and far between these days but his estranged wife Miriam keeps the good ship Ahern sailing. She travelled to Tramore last Tuesday with her sister Olive to have lunch with her old pal, Ian Galvin, at his lovely home in Tramore.  

IT'S impossible to look at the story of Bertie Ahern's political career without reference to the small cabal that was by his side throughout. You see, it was never just Bertie Ahern. It was always Bertie Ahern and the Drumcondra Mafia.  

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Former leader and taoiseach Bertie Ahern has resigned as a Fianna Fail member over the Mahon findings, the party has confirmed.  

ANALYSIS: BERTIE AHERN’S decision to pre-empt Micheál Martin’s move to expel him from Fianna Fáil by resigning first marks a watershed in the party’s history. Ahern was the most successful Fianna Fáil leader in electoral terms since the party’s ...  

Fianna Fail receive correspondence from former taoiseach Bertie Ahern confirming his resignation from the Party.  

A report into corruption in the Republic's planning process finds that former Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern failed to truthfully account for a number of financial transactions.  

Irish IndependentAhern says decision on Mahon 'still with legal people'Irish IndependentBy Luke Byrne DISGRACED former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has yet to decide how or when he will challenge the findings of the Mahon Tribunal. Speaking after he attended Good Friday Mass at the chapel of the Mater Hospital in Dublin yesterday, ...  

Former Irish taoiseach (prime minister) Bertie Ahern said he had resigned from the Fianna Fail party over a furor surrounding his finances during his near decade at the helm of the country. The resignation came days after a long-awaited report ...  

FORMER Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern received $276,000 in secret payments while in office and repeatedly told lies about this under oath, a mammoth fact-finding investigation ruled on Thursday. The three judges of the Mahon tribunal stopped short of ...  

Former Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern received A$276,000 in secret payments while in office and repeatedly told lies about this under oath, a mammoth fact-finding investigation ruled on Thursday. The three judges of the Mahon tribunal stopped short of ...  

DUBLIN - Former Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern says he's resigning from the Fianna Fail party rather than be expelled over an investigation into his secret payments. The 60-year-old Ahern later this week faces formal expulsion from the party ...  

FORMER Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has tarnished the office of An Taoiseach, it has been claimed, after the long-awaited Mahon Tribunal report found Mr Ahern did not tell the truth about a labyrinth of cash payments.  

FORMER Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has tarnished the office of An Taoiseach, it has been claimed, after the long-awaited Mahon Tribunal report found Mr Ahern did not tell the truth about a labyrinth of cash payments.  

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has said that the Fianna Fáil party had no choice but to put forward a motion to expel Bertie Ahern and Padraig Flynn from the party. The Fianna Fáil national executive is to vote next Friday on whether to expel both the ...  

AN Irish artist has spoken of his embarrassment after a portrait of former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern was included in a show in Paris, just days after the findings of the Mahon Tribunal were made public.  

Enda Kenny has dismissed as "desperate tactics" Fianna Fáil’s criticism of him for sharing a platform with businessman Denis O’Brien. It came as the fallout from the Mahon Report continued, with Bertie Ahern announcing he would resign from Fianna ...  

Fianna Fáil will expel Bertie Ahern next week after he was found to have lied to the Mahon Tribunal about massive sums of money flowing into his accounts.  

Former Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern received at least €209,779 ($276,000) in secret payments while in office and repeatedly lied about this under oath, a mammoth fact-finding judicial investigation ruled Thursday in a long-awaited verdict.  

Even if Bertie Ahern’s resignation offers Micheal Martin a useful tribal head on a plate, Noel Whelan notes that it also robs the party of some of the best of its recent history: Ahern led Fianna Fáil for 14 of the last 17 years. He has defined the party in the modern age and has [...]  

DUBLIN (AP) — Former Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern received at least €209,779 ($276,000) in secret payments while in office and repeatedly lied about this under oath, a mammoth fact-finding judicial investigation ruled Thursday in a long ...  

Former Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern explanations on the source of “substantial funds” he received were untrue, a government-appointed probe found. The so-called Mahon Tribunal rejected evidence from Ahern, who denies any wrongdoing ...  

DUBLIN (AP) — Former Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern announced Sunday he has resigned from the Fianna Fail party rather than be expelled over an investigation into secret payments he received while in office, but vowed to clear his name. Ahern, 60 ...  

Micheál Martin described Bertie Ahern as a "bona fide operator" who had done nothing legally or ethically wrong during the period when the then taoiseach was trying to fend off the tribunal. Micheál Martin described Bertie Ahern as a "bona fide operator ...  

DUBLIN (AP) — Former Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern says he's resigning from the Fianna Fail party rather than be expelled over an investigation into his secret payments. The 60-year-old Ahern later this week faces formal expulsion from the ...  

Former Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern says he's resigning from the Fianna Fail party rather than be expelled over an investigation into his secret payments. The 60-year-old Ahern later this week faces formal expulsion from the party he led ...  

Former Irish prime minister Bertie Ahern has resigned from his political party in the wake of a corruption inquiry.  

Former Irish prime minister Bertie Ahern has resigned from his political party in the wake of a corruption inquiry.  

Former Irish prime minister Bertie Ahern has resigned from his political party in the wake of a corruption inquiry.  

DISGRACED former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern made €30,000 for a speech at an economic forum in Nigeria – just days after the Mahon Tribunal rejected his evidence about money in his accounts as being ‘untruthful’.  

Former taoiseach Bertie Ahern failed to tell the truth about money paid into his bank accounts in the early 1990s, a major inquiry into political and planning corruption in Dublin has found. The Mahon tribunal published its long-awaited findings after a 15 ...  

Fianna Fáil have confirmed Bertie Ahern has resigned from the party in a letter received this morning.  

Judge Alan Mahon has used the final report of the planning inquiry to launch a withering attack on some of former taoiseach Bertie Ahern's Cabinet colleagues in his final months as leader.  

This installation is named the Bertie Bowl in honour of former taoiseach Bertie Ahern, recently accused in a report into corruption of lying about his personal finances. "When I was sitting on it one day a lot of thoughts were flashing around in ...  

Former Irish prime minister Bertie Ahern has resigned from his political party in the wake of a corruption inquiry.  

Former Irish prime minister Bertie Ahern has resigned from his political party in the wake of a corruption inquiry.  

Reacting to the Mahon Tribunal's findings, Waterford Independent TD John Halligan has called on former taoiseach Bertie Ahern to explain the true source of thousands of pounds sterling.  

THE MAHON Tribunal report, which found today that former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern failed to tell the truth about money in his bank accounts, is to be sent to the Garda Commissioner, the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Revenue Commissioners.  

The Fianna Fáil senator who abstained on a vote to move to expel Bertie Ahern from the party has said she will not vote on the actual motion next week and that people are jumping on the bandwagon over the findings of the Mahon Report.  

FIANNA Fail Senator Mary White will not support the expulsion of former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern from the party next week, writes Michael Brennan. She was one of the two members of the party's officer board who abstained from the vote last Thursday to start ...  

Former prime minister Bertie Ahern, his ex-colleagues, the Irish Government and political parties have been braced for months for the findings of the inquiry into planning matters and payments. Fifteen years after its establishment and with costs estimated ...  

FIANNA Fail vice president Lisa Chambers today dramatically called former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern’s resignation from the party he led "a token effort".  

FIANNA Fail leader Micheal Martin last night revealed plans to expel former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern from the party for "betraying the trust" placed in him by the country.  

The Mahon tribunal has rejected much of the sworn evidence given to it by former taoiseach Bertie Ahern and said that he failed to “truthfully account” for the source of lodgements made to his bank account.  

Former taoiseach Bertie Ahern failed to tell the truth about money paid into his bank accounts in the early 1990s, a major inquiry into political and planning corruption in Dublin has found. The Mahon tribunal published its long-awaited findings after a 15 ...  

FIANNA Fail move to expel Bertie Ahern. A simple sentence but one that shows just how far Bertie Ahern has fallen. In his statement last night he suggested that he had done nothing to demean the office he held, a sad effort, when it is clear to anyone that he did exactly that. He will find few friends out there this morning, the world is a changed place from the forgiving days of the Celtic Tiger. While people struggle to pay bills and...  

A HERO publican had to save Bertie Ahern from a potential beating after a heckler started hurling abuse at him. Beaumont House bar boss Dermot Carew dragged the punter through the kitchen to get him away from the fallen ex-taoiseach. Bertie had dropped in ...  

DISGRACED former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern repeatedly lied in his accounts about the source of £215,000 in cash that passed through his bank accounts in the 1990s, the Mahon Tribunal found.  

The trust that controls St Luke’s, Bertie Ahern’s constituency office in Drumcondra, Dublin has signalled its willingness to transfer ownership to Fianna Fáil.  

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Former Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern lied about the source of substantial sums of money he received, an inquiry concluded on Thursday in a long-awaited report into the dealings of one of the architects of Ireland's ill-fated economic ...  

Three-time taoiseach Bertie Ahern was tonight on the verge of an ignominious political demise as once-loyal supporters warned they could no longer defend the indefensible.  

THE famous St Luke's office used by former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern is to be handed back to Fianna Fail.  

DUBLIN - Former Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern lied about the source of substantial sums of money he received, an inquiry concluded on Thursday in a long-awaited report into the dealings of one of the architects of Ireland's ill-fated economic boom.  

- The Tribunal Report falls short of a corruption finding in respect of former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern.  

A vote to expel Ireland's former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern from his political party is the only route available for colleagues after a corruption inquiry found he did not tell the truth about a labyrinth of cash payments, it has been claimed.  

Ireland's former taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, has insisted he never accepted a bribe or corrupt payment after a long-awaited corruption inquiry found he did not tell the truth about a labyrinth of cash payments.  

BROADCASTER Joe Duffy has offered former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern the chance to tell his side of the story. If 14 days in the witness box during the Mahon Tribunal wasn't harrowing enough, the RTE personality has suggested Mr Ahern might explain himself to ...  

Former Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern lied about the source of substantial sums of money he received, an inquiry concluded on Thursday in a long-awaited report into the dealings of one of the architects of Ireland's ill-fated economic boom. The verdict ...  

FORMER Taoiseach Bertie Ahern failed to truthfully account for a total of IR£165,214.25 that passed through bank accounts connected with him, the Mahon Tribunal has found.  

DUBLIN -- Former Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern failed to give a truthful account of the source of payments he received, an inquiry concluded on Thursday in a long-awaited report into the dealings of one of the architects of Ireland's ill-fated economic ...  

FORMER Taoiseach Bertie Ahern declared himself to be tax compliant in 2002 -- even though he was subsequently unable to "truthfully account" for IR£165,000 lodged to his bank accounts.  

FORMER TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern gave untrue evidence to the tribunal about his personal finances, including lodgements to accounts which the tribunal found were large sterling and dollar cash deposits. The inquiry found that Mr Ahern knew the true source of ...  

Former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has insisted he never accepted a bribe or corrupt payment after a long-awaited corruption inquiry found he did not tell the truth about a labyrinth of cash payments.  

DUBLIN, March 22 (Reuters) - Former Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern failed to give a truthful account of the source of payments he received, an inquiry concluded on Thursday in a long-awaited report into the dealings of one of the architects ...  

FORMER Taoiseach Bertie Ahern this week boasted to a Nigerian audience about how his governments had to be imaginative and innovative to drive economic growth.  

Ireland’s former prime minister, Bertie Ahern, failed to “truthfully account” for IR£165,000 in secret payments that he received during the 1990s, according to the final report of the longest running corruption inquiry in Irish history. The Mahon ...  

Former Irish taoiseach Bertie Ahern failed to tell the truth about money paid into his bank accounts in the early 1990s, a major inquiry into political and planning corruption in Dublin has found.  

Former Irish taoiseach Bertie Ahern failed to tell the truth about money paid into his bank accounts in the early 1990s, a major inquiry into political and planning corruption in Dublin has found.  

Former Irish taoiseach Bertie Ahern failed to tell the truth about money paid into his bank accounts in the early 1990s, a major inquiry into political and planning corruption in Dublin has found.  

There was also conflicting evidence about stacks of cash moved from the house safe to a city-centre bank by Bertie's then-lover Celia Larkin ... TAOISEACH Enda Kenny last night backed calls for Bertie Ahern to be booted out of Fianna Fail.  

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Former Irish taoiseach Bertie Ahern failed to tell the truth about money paid into his bank accounts in the early 1990s, a major inquiry into political and planning corruption in Dublin has found.  

Former Irish taoiseach Bertie Ahern failed to tell the truth about money paid into his bank accounts in the early 1990s, a major inquiry into political and planning corruption in Dublin has found.  

BERTIE Ahern faces a humiliating political end - expulsion from the party he once led along with corrupt former representatives Padraig Flynn and three ex-councillors following the outcome of the Mahon Tribunal today.  

Bertie Ahern is no longer listed among the world leaders at a British agency specialising in public speakers. Mr Ahern’s listing on the Speaker’s Associates was taken down in the last week in the wake of the findings of Mahon Tribunal ...  

A COMPANY which arranges lucrative after-dinner speeches in the US has refused to say if former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern will be removed from a list of keynote speakers.  

Dublin - Former Irish prime minister Bertie Ahern has been accused of lying about sources of money in his bank accounts, according to a corruption investigation report Thursday. Ahern 'failed to truthfully account for a total of 165,214.25 Irish ...  

BERTIE Ahern’s brother Noel today accused Fianna Fail leader Michael Martin of using the Mahon Tribunal findings to build his own media image and urged him to "hasten slowly". Questioning Mr Martin’s motivation in proposing to have the former Taoiseach ...  

FORMER Taoiseach Bertie Ahern failed to tell the truth about money paid into his bank accounts in the early 1990s, a major inquiry into political and planning corruption in Dublin has found.  

It was a handy little earner for just one speech. A €30,000 cheque and a ticket to a country far away from Ireland and the fallout from the Mahon Report. But Bertie Ahern's profitable jaunt to Nigeria this week is likely to be one of his last on the foreign circuit.  

BERTIE Ahern's resignation from Fianna Fail is expected to spark a series of departures by other senior party figures criticised in the Mahon Tribunal's report.  

THE Bertie Ahern and Padraig Flynn resignation letters to Fianna Fail are expected to spark a series of departures by other senior party figures criticised in the Mahon Tribunal's report.  

Take, for example, two very different personalities: Tiger Woods and Bertie Ahern. Once upon a time, Woods was the most-popular athlete in the world – no small claim. His fame and fortune were based, of course, on his ability to strike a golf ball ...  

A spokesperson for Bertie Ahern has said that the former taoiseach "is reviewing the final report of the Mahon Tribunal and will issue a statement in due course".  

FIANNA Fail leader Micheal Martin will attempt to seize St Luke's -- the celebrated headquarters of Bertie Ahern -- from the former Taoiseach's 'Drumcondra Mafia'.  

The picture in question: a portrait of Bertie Ahern ... “I opine the enjoyment of this wonderful collection of photographs would be greatly enhanced for many people if Bertie with his 0.004 chance of getting the best spot in the show could be moved ...  

Madam -- In 1994 when Bertie Ahern assumed the post of Taoiseach, the empty space on the wall of the Taoiseach's office, which had displayed a fine portrait of the constitutionalist John Redmond, was filled-in by an image -- in familiar profile -- of Patrick Henry Pearse, the Fenian revolutionary, who is regarded by nationalists as the founding father of the State, and by others as a less-than- exemplary historical figure to bedeck any prime...  

So the Mahon Tribunal has been published (fast download copy here). It’s a short form account of a lot of news that’s already been in the public domain (it has a 70 page summary)… In effect it states pretty clearly that they do not believe Bertie Ahern’s several stories about inconsistency in his account for [...]  

• To be honest, I couldn't give a damn about Bertie Ahern's finances or whether or not he received 'inappropriate' payments from businessmen. This phenomenon, while hardly desirable from elected representatives, is scarcely unique to Ireland.  

The last remaining Fianna Fail member named and shamed in the Mahon findings has quit the party. Finbarr Hanrahan, a former councillor in Dublin, joins the likes of Bertie Ahern and Padraig Flynn by quitting before they could be expelled. A Fianna Fail ...  

BERTIE Ahern’s brother Noel today accused Fianna Fail leader Michael Martin of using the Mahon Tribunal findings to build his own media image and urged him to "hasten slowly".  

This weekend while Bertie Ahern ducks and dives behind a smokescreen of denial as he rebuts the Mahon Tribunal findings against him, my friend 'Martha' is preparing to sell her home in Dublin because she can't afford to live in it any more. And she is doing this at a time when she is still mourning the recent death of her beloved second husband.  

Bertie Ahern said this evening that he rejects the finding of the Mahon Tribunal that he was not truthful in his account of events.  

FIANNA Fail leader Micheal Martin will attempt to seize St Luke's -- the celebrated headquarters of Bertie Ahern -- from the former Taoiseach's 'Drumcondra Mafia'.  

DEVELOPER Owen O'Callaghan did claim to have "taken care of" ex-taoiseach Bertie Ahern in return for a promised favour, the tribunal has found.  

Bertie Ahern insists he has never taken “a corrupt payment” and that the Mahon Tribunal has done him a “grave injustice”.  

This weekend while Bertie Ahern ducks and dives behind a smokescreen of denial as he rebuts the Mahon Tribunal findings against him, my friend 'Martha' is preparing to sell her home in Dublin because she can't afford to live in it any more. And she is doing this at a time when she is still mourning the recent death of her beloved second husband.  

Bertie Ahern’s achievements, such as the Belfast Agreement, cannot absolve him from the findings of the Mahon tribunal, Micheál Martin has said.  

Bertie Ahern has saved Micheal Martin further embarrassment and has given Fianna Fail the opportunity to shut up about him. Since the release of the Mahon Report last week, divisive harm was done by party members from the leader down. Martin placed major ...  

Bertie Ahern’s former partner has said she is “desolate that the evidence of the man I once shared my life with” was not accepted by the Mahon Tribunal.  

THE country may be angry over the Mahon Tribunal findings and Bertie Ahern’s role in particular. But many people are seeing the funny side too.... particularly on twitter.  

THE country may be angry over the Mahon Tribunal findings and Bertie Ahern’s role in particular. But many people are seeing the funny side too.... particularly on twitter.  

Bertie Ahern faces a humiliating political end - expulsion from the party he once led along with corrupt former representatives Padraig Flynn and three ex-councillors.  

Bertie Ahern has saved Micheal Martin further embarrassment and has given Fianna Fail the opportunity to shut up about him. Nothing it was saying was of any value, about him or about Fianna Fail.  

Bertie Ahern has saved Micheal Martin further embarrassment and has given Fianna Fail the opportunity to shut up about him. Nothing it was saying was of any value, about him or about Fianna Fail.  

BERTIE Ahern's friends, Des Richardson, Joe Burke and Tim Collins, remain the legal owners of the former Taoiseach's St Luke's constituency office. The control of St Luke's, the famed hub of Mr Ahern's celebrated 'Drumondra Mafia', is expected to come ...  

FIANNA Fail has confirmed that Bertie Ahern’s resignation letter was received this morning at party headquarters.  

THE Mahon Tribunal yesterday said it employed forensic accountants throughout the 15-year-inquiry -- rubbishing accusations by Bertie Ahern to the contrary.  

DON'T like Bertie Ahern. Never did. Never got it. Tried to respect that other people did, even though I found that hard. I had one personal experience with him and I thought it and its fallout revealed him and his people to be a fairly tough crew.  

BERTIE Ahern's occasional flutter on the horses was revealed for the first time to the Mahon Tribunal as he tried to explain sterling lodgments to his IPBS building society account.  

Sindo trying desperately to be in tune with public mood. Bertie Ahern's last hurrah - and what better place for him to have his say. Eoghan Harris, in his defence of Bertie, refers to 'republican-socialist activist Frank 'Colombia' Connolly' (thinking that mouthful an insult), whereas Jody Corcoran, in a somewhat confused piece, acknowledged Frank Connolly's role in exposing corruption. Well done Jody, keep it going, think for yourself. No...