A first on #dwZone: The former Irish prime minister Bertie Ahern called a halt to our interview after Tim Sebastian raised the financial scandal that led to Ahern’s resignation as PM.
Full interview 👉 https://t.co/QH9ePeiBdE pic.twitter.com/hpg4cOf1Cg
— DW Conflict Zone (@dw_conflictzone) April 20, 2018
Good times.
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I only want to talk about the GOOD things I was part of!
All done to discredit fianna fail
This tribuneral is a waste of money
No accountability
Now being used to get votes for little Leo verruca’s Ireland’s got talent cabinet
Millions wasted instead of building a home to house a family
We all know about Bertie but he delivered the good Friday agreement which under Leo is about to fall apart
The tribunal made money. It clawed back a lot of hidden money that was untaxed. Do you believe Bertie’s story that he won the money by gambling on horses?
So david’s an FFer. That explains the relentlessly personal nature of his attacks. FF are hardly going to have anything positive to propose.
And why he gets so angry he can’t spell tribunal.
Jesus Nigel you really are so deluded
I am not a fianna failer or a fine gaeler or a labour head or a people before prophet
Call me an independent
As for Sinn feinn ?I would prefer to vote Hamas than those who murdered so many Irish people
‘Independent for FF.’
People before prophet is called a congregation.
Tribuneral ?
david has an auto correct that is very similar to his opinions, laughably incorrect.
He upset the the apple tart.
I like what you did there. Bravo!
A liar and a crook. Never forget that.
He also said he was a qualified account, however never provided proof that he passed any accountancy exams in the state.
When he’s on Irish radio, I always wonder why the interviewer doesn’t ask him is he still sticking to the ‘I won it on the horses’ lie.
Because the Irish media don’t want to upset the cosy consensus which they are a part of.
Very true.
He was there to talk about the GFA in which he played a prominent role. If Conflict Zone really is as hard hitting as it claims then they would have been spotlighting the glaring contradictions between the GFA and Brexit but instead, they attempted to discredit him.
There was clearly an agenda at play and IMO he was right to walk.
Thanks for the comment Bertie.
Perhaps
But he’s being well provided for to retire
So he should just butt out
Keep himself t’ himself
And eff’ off quietly
“they attempted to discredit him”
words fail me, SOQ
Just park your vitriol for a minute eh? Ahern was no saint, far from it, but he was an ardent supporter of the GFA and that is what he was there to talk about. Do you honestly think most of people watching that interview would have even been aware of his past? He has no intention of running for president and they know that so why bring it up? It was a hatchet job.
“He has no intention of running for president”
Do you know this to be fact?
https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/dublin-news/bertie-ahern-president-14490132
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/bertie-on-whether-he-would-run-for-president-id-think-about-it-36772845.html
Sure Bertie himself flagged that he was interested in running for the Presidency.
The interviewer clearly says his office were notified of the other discussion topics.
Yes. He said there were other topics. But didn’t explicitly what the other topics were.
Ugh. I feel dirty defending Bertie.
there’s no vitriol in my comment, SOQ. don’t see where you get that.
nobody could discredit bertie ahern; he took care of that himself. he has the standing of a lizard, couldn’t be discredited any further.
it’s patently obvious that ahern is using the anniversary of the GFA in an effort to rehabilitate his public image either to prepare for a presidential run (or at least test the waters). it’s entirely reasonable that his past public conduct be probed and questioned. that’s what happens. if he has things to hide or thinks he’s above that, he’d be better off slithering back to wherever he’s been for the last few years.
Patently obvious is it? Because of Brexit the GFA is under threat like never before and I doubt if many Irish people even heard of The Conflict Zone if it wasn’t for this. If rehabilitation is his goal then he is going a very long way about it.
They completely played the man not the ball and if anyone thinks Ahern has a snowball’s chance in hell of becoming president then I’ll have a pint of whatever they are having.
right-e-o
Im no fan of bertie but i agree with you SOQ. They don’t give a fig about any possible presidential run, simply trying to discredit him
hardly if they provided the questions in advance
like yer man said they did
Bertie, maybe, was just too quick to put himself in-front of a camera to actually read the brief
like get real
he is never going to be allowed walk away from his behaviour and failure
and if he was that precious about his reputation and public perception he wouldn’t have been doing ads for the News of the World
and that goes for his political future
like why do dumbed down ads for a Sunday Tabloid rag if his ambition was the Aras
Jesus
if anything it provides the Irish Citizen and Voter, which includes you Rottie, a measure of the level esteem he holds for the Role of President of Ireland
again… “trying to discredit him”
come on, rotide, seriously?
Discredit may be the wrong word.
I don’t need German TV going over stuff that we all know about a mere 10 years later to persuade me that Ahern is crooked as they come. I and most everyone in this state knows this.
He was brought on to talk about the GFA and how brexit could affect it. He’s highly qualified to talk about this, being one of the people that made the thing actually happen. That’s something that can never be taken away from him, regardless of his other wrongdoings. His other wrongdoings have precisesly nothing to do with the GFA and brexit and there’s no reason to ask him about them other than to manufacture a bit of outrage.
+1
It was a dog whistle and surprising how many responded. I wonder what it is he is saying about the GFA that is upsetting the Germans right now.
If you watch the full clip, it’s 24 mins long, the presenter states at the end that his team had given Bertie a full list of topics to be discussed, one of the topics was the mahon tribunal, Bertie never got back to him so the fact that Bertie was ill prepared is on him not the conflict zone.
I despise Bertie as the next man, but agree it was a cheap shot by these hacks.
What? Asking him questions about things he has done? The topics were sent to his office in advance according to the video.
If you believe everything you hear, you’ll eat everything you see.
Yea, and Bertie’s an innocent man according to you, how dare those pesky objective journalists ask him unprepared questions..
Infantile drivel
Pat Kenny’s wife is back..
You must be living in some kind of fantasy land Bertie Ahern discredited himself years ago. Just because some time has passed doesn’t make him any less of a crook.
SOQ: you post some amount infantile drivel on the site.
I’m entitled to my opinions sweetheart, just like everyone else. Now do you actually have a point to make or is it just a cry for attention?
Ah Topsy
that’s uncalled for
OAQ has a great eye for the fashion and frocks n’ accessories n’ stuff
If you ever meet me Frilly you are in for the mother of all surprises. Online and real world can be two very different things.
You know your threading bullpoo when rotide agrees with you..
True dat’ Q
Not SOQ though who does that. It’s the people attacking her for having an opinion or original idea
HAH!
Bertie a Squirm.
Shnake
time to forgive and forget
No.
Forgive & forget. That snake told people to go and “commit suicide”. Unfortunately some did & all you have to offer is – forgive & forget. Reprehensible.
did he tell people to commit suicide?
Yes he did. Check it out. Ahern an odious man.
I couldn’t find it
Harry Apathy, you just found a new bottom to feed from fair play..
Harry: search; bertiahernesuicidequotes through any search engine/ browser, and you’ll find verbatim quotes and words of wisdom from the man himself.
I can’t find any where he tells people to commit suicide
“I don’t know how people who engage in that don’t commit suicide” commenting on people “talking the economy down”, just before the crash. Speech at Irish Congress of Trade Unions conference
You can watch it here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfjGSfuSQpA
Yes he did. He thought he was making a joke or being glib. It was in the worst taste possible.
https://www.rte.ie/news/2007/0704/90808-economy/
he didn’t tell people to commit suicide though
there’s so much to dislike about him but passing exaggeration as fact is why you can’t believe the accuracy of anything you hear these days
Harry is right. He didn’t tell those people to commit suicide. He pondered aloud on the meaninglessness of their daily existence and their abject lack of personal fulfillment. Not the same thing.
…they shouldn’t have paid him in advance…
Winner!!!!
And tisn’t even dinner hour
Hon’ Bisto
We should have a whipround and build a statue of the chap who attacked him with a brolly.
why has the https://denisnaughten.ie/ story disappeared ?
amusing as this is,it’s also somewhat depressing that there’s zero consequences in Ireland.
at best Naughten is incompetent,how can he possibly continue heading his dept ?
allegations of significant editorial inteference at INM are surfacing,will Naughten rescue himself from any inquiry, or do the right thing a resign ?
or do we not get it !
Guilty!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I suppose the interviewer read about the thousands in the wardrobe, thousands on the nag, thousands in a dunne stores bag, the ‘life partner’ ( a fling) buying a property with help from fingers , no paperwork and not paying a bob back until a reporter came snooping 7 years later. ” I’ll cut this short” he may have thought .LOL.
He’s so used to being treated with kid gloves by the Irish media so it never occured to him that a real journalist might ask some tough questions about his dubious past.
Genuine question: why are the Irish media so nice to him? They’re so nice I actually forgot how much of a crook and a cowboy he was until I watched this
Its because they are all part of the same estabishment group who ultimately always take care of their own. They circle the wagons and give you the old “move on, nothing to see here”.
I thoroughly enjoyed that! thank you
Ahern & all the other after dinner speech circuit merchants like Blair should just fupp off & stay retired so we can forget about their corrupt lives
our system allows lying snakes like Ahern and Lowry, Kenny & the rest to exist & thrive, that’s the real problem here
it’s the people of tipp that allow Lowry to thrive.
an’ d’ya know wha’ Qwert
ask any lad in Tipp do they vote for him
and they’ll say no
ha, he tops the polls, so tipp people like fibbin
and they fib cos he fixht de roads & made sure all those extensions were exempt and sent them personal handwritten letters (probably via one of 50 sub cronies) to let em know too.
local issues not national interest
Like there are no Garth Brooks fans then he fills Croker 5 times *
* in theory
How can you possibly compare Ahern and Kenny?
Both are habitilual liars..
*habitual*
Ahern – a lowlife.
Feck off Bertie! No one wants ye back
Good interview. Everything that Miriam O’Callaghan and the rest of the RTÉ shower are not.
BIZARRE IRREGULARITIES
LOUD NOISES!
This thread is a tough read when your name is Bertie.
I dread the day Sir StJohn Rotide must answer difficult question in the House of Lords
He thought he was to be interviewed on a programme called the ‘Confetti Zone’.
That was simply glorious.
Nicely played by the interviewer and great to see the ‘rat in the anorak’ squirm.
The tribunal gave its “views”, but he gave his “evidence”. Looking at his body language and facial expressions this interview clearly shows the steely hard awful man that Bertie Ahern is. He never actually denies that he wont be running for President.
” finance minister without a bank account..”
He will be elected President too. the Irish are a bit thick like that
Haven’t you heard? It’s President John Waters we’ll be voting in.