Tag Archives: Bertie

September 15, 1999.

Moscow, Russia.

Then Taoiseach Bertie Ahern stares down then and still Russian Prime Minister Vladamir Putin.

It’s not a caption competition unless you insistzki.

Earlier: Cuddly Bear

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From the vaults.

Fine Gael chief whip Seán Barrett and Fianna Fáil chief whip Bertie Ahern take a break from the Dáil during the 1983 Abortion Referendum, top, and, above, Mr Ahern pictured next to former school teacher and hairdresser, and pro-life activist Mary Margaret Dunne.

Eamon Farrell/Photocall Ireland

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Fianna Fail’s 2007 election manifesto launch (40 seconds in).

Under the watchful glare of PJ Mara, Vincent Browne does the journalism thing with Bertie.

“Might I remind PJ, 20 years ago we attempted to press the then leader of Fianna Fail [Charles Haughey] on his financial affairs and we we were obstructed from doing so. We were obstructed again in 1988 and I hope Fianna Fail has changed and we won’t be obstructed from doing so again.”

 

(Eamonn Farrell/Photocall Ireland)

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“I think people know my view for 20 years. It would actually give me the greatest of pleasure to watch non-compliant taxpayers go to jail. That’s the kind of person I am.”

1993.

One of the dig-out years.

Nobody shouted ‘ah here’.