Bertie Ahern. (1 Viewer)

[quackster]

i think it was Richard Aldous who wrote it

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2009/1015/1224256692276.html

i was wondering whether the ghost writer could qualify for the artist exemption. after all, he did the hard stuff of writing it and especially harder due to Ahern's memory problems

arf, that's a good piece too. fue do joie indeed. and i hadn't heard the gaff about lehman brothers having "testicles" all over the world before.

 

[bernardkelly]

WHO GIVES A TOSS IF POOR OWL BERTIE WAS A BIT OF A BOYOH,.|..| IF HE WERE TO COME BACK AS OUR FEARLESS LEADER ONCE AGAIN, WE'D SOON BE OUT OF THE SHITE WE'RE IN NOW. HE WAS THE BEST NEGOCIATOR THE GOVERNMENT EVER HAD AGAINST THE UNIONS ​

 

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WHO GIVES A TOSS IF POOR OWL BERTIE WAS A BIT OF A BOYOH,.|..| IF HE WERE TO COME BACK AS OUR FEARLESS LEADER ONCE AGAIN, WE'D SOON BE OUT OF THE SHITE WE'RE IN NOW. HE WAS THE BEST NEGOCIATOR THE GOVERNMENT EVER HAD AGAINST THE UNIONS ​

Are on drugs?

 

[bernardkelly]

YOU KNOW IT..................

 

[bernardkelly]

HOW DO I STOP THE TEXT FROM STICKING TO THE LEFT

 

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HOW DO I STOP THE TEXT FROM STICKING TO THE LEFT

Turn off your caps lock button?

 

[bernardkelly]

thanks............ .... hhhhhhhhhhhhh aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ghygff bbgh bvvg vvgfr

 

[pete]

A chara, – I wish to protest at the photograph (Front page, February 1st) of former taoiseach Bertie Ahern TD. I am sick to my teeth looking at the person who has caused to much hardship to so many thousands of our people.Shame on you. – Is mise,
PAUL DORAN,
Monastery Walk,
Clondalkin, Dublin 22.

SARAH CUNNINGHAM,
Madam, – Free advertising for a multinational television company, a pub in Dublin, and a politician who had to resign under several clouds. Why? – Yours, etc,
Lower Churchtown Road,
Dublin 14.


Madam, – What a pity Bertie Ahern wasn’t wearing those 3D glasses when his government oversaw our country’s finances! – Yours, etc,
STEPHEN McGOVERN,
Westminster Park,
Foxrock, Dublin 18.

http://www.irishtimes.com/letters/

 

[Unicron]

Bertie wants to get to heaven.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/0208/1224263954293.html?via=mr

as a supporter of the religious orders, he would not have set up the various inquiries into child abuse, but he was persuaded to do so by abuse campaigner Christine Buckley.

 

[IFF]

this is from the artscape column in the irish times on a saturday http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2010/0206/1224263863786.html

The Revenue Commissioners’ decisions on whether to grant tax free status, taken with Arts Council advice, are open to appeal. Those turned down by the Revenue can go to the tax appeal commissioners, who are independent of the Revenue and decide on matters of dispute between Revenue and taxpayers. Cases are heard, in a sort of mini court set-up, by one of the two commissioners, Ronan Kelly and John O’Callaghan (more usually the latter, apparently). They are political appointments, for life.
In recent years the interpretation of the guidelines on what qualifies on the basis of artistic merit, particularly with non-fiction, has been loose and generous, with a liberal interpretation of what is “culture”. On appeal, the commissioners appear to take the view that a biography of a sports star is no less valuable than one of an artist. And indeed that may be so, but it also seems to go against the spirit of the original tax exemption.
Going through an appeals process is an expensive and time-consuming business, involving a barrister and solicitor for
Revenue and the appellant, and expert testimony from the Arts Council. Seeing as they were losing so many appeals because of commissioner decisions, the Revenue’s pragmatic approach in recent years and in some cases seems to have been to just grant tax-exempt status in the first place. Rock and a hard place.
All the same, it’s probably a relief, to someone, that the Revenue continued with its loose interpretation of the guidelines to ensure Bertie’s book did qualify; if it had been turned down, there would be the deliciously embarrassing situation where he might have had to appeal the decision to his brother-in-law, Ronan Kelly.

 

[magicbastarder]

http://www.herald.ie/national-news/city-news/now-bertie-wants-to-tax-dubliners-2100485.html

 

[baltimore sun]

http://www.last.fm/music/captain+moonlight/_/Dirty+cunts

please allow some hip hop from one of Ireland's finest hiphop artists, Captain Moolight,

"Bertie Ahern he's a dirty c*nt,
Mary Harney's a dirty c*nt......"

altogether now

 

[nooleen]

go bertie, it's your birthday, we're gonna bash you like it's your birthday

 

[magicbastarder]

http://www.herald.ie/national-news/gone-in-12-minutes-the-man-who-blew-the-boom-2118723.html

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

finally does something sound

http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/bertie-gives-up-ministerial-pension-455555.html

 

[quackster]

what a legend

 

[ratmonkey]

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Note the way the dude in the ad is unable to eat his breakfast after the sight of the Bert in his cupboard.

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

who's the bigger prick-bertie or paul williams?

 

[ratmonkey]

Bertie surely. Paul Williams is just an obnoxious prick, Bertie is an obnoxious prick who drove the country into the shit.

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

yeah,good point.that was easier than expected.