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We can spit on Bertie Ahern till our mouths run dry, but he didn’t invent the amorality of our public culture. He was never a large enough figure to be able to shape the way Irish society thinks and feels. He was just an artful dodger, a skilled exploiter of the opportunities created by widespread tolerance for ingratiating chancers.
bertie ahern— Fintan O'Toole, Giving the people of Ireland a chance not chancers Irish Times, March 27, 2012.
We're British! Bertie Ahern has nothing to do with Ulster. Bertie Ahern, keep your nose out of this wee province!
paul berry— YouTube video.
I'm Burlington Bertie, I rise at ten thirtyThen saunter along like a toff.I walk down the Strand with my gloves on my hand,Then I walk down again with them off.
william hargreaves— Song Burlington Bertie from Bow
If this conversion was genuine, we would have to go back 2,000 years to find another as rapid and as radical. Saul’s embrace of Christianity on the road to Damascus stood the test of time but the Taoiseach’s [Bertie Ahern] embrace of socialism on the banks of the Tolka hardly will.
joe higgins— Last Man Standing
[Alexander North] Whitehead is supposed to have said of [Bertrand] Russell: “Bertie thinks me muddleheaded and I think Bertie simple-minded.”
Randall Jarrell— “The Morality of Mr. Winters”, p. 18
Members of Congress I have the high privilege and distinct honour of presenting to you, his excellency Bertie Ahern (/ei/hern), the Taoiseach, the Prime Minister of Ireland
nancy pelosi— Referring to Bertie Ahern (Ah-hern) at a joint meeting of the US Congress at Capital Hill in Washington (April 30th, 2008)
