Tag: Bertie-Ahern

Bertie Ahern Jokes

It didn’t take long. Bertie Ahern, the Irish prime minister, announced his resignation yesterday and already the joke emails are pouring in. (Thanks Brian and Louise!)

My own contributions:

Sunday Times, December 23rd 2007.

The Bertie score card above is from Bifsniff.com (but created by Brendan O’Connell), anyone want to claim credit for the others? Unfortunately email forwarders don’t usually give credit ..

Gavin, who has blogged the Mahon Tribunal for so long has given his own reaction as well as a chronology of events leading to the resignation yesterday. It’s scary how long the Teflon Taoiseach managed to survive in politics. Nothing stuck to him.

Edit: Green Ink created Bertie 300. Thanks for commenting!

Tags Bertie-Ahern, Ireland, irishblogs, joke emails, jokes, Photos

Ireland

FAIL

Post author By Donncha
Post date March 26, 2008
13 Comments on FAIL

A conspiracy of silence

Tags Bertie-Ahern, fianna-fail, Humour, irish-politics, irishblogs, politics

Donncha's Links In the news Ireland

Bertie's yellow hair and pierced nose

Post author By Donncha
Post date December 27, 2007
4 Comments on Bertie's yellow hair and pierced nose

The Irish Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, Sunday Times, Dec. 23 2007

I really would love to know how the Minister for Finance survived so many years without a bank account.

Linkies ..

Photo Phlow presents your Flickr stream in a new Flash interface. Cute. Here’s my stream there.
GIMP FX repository is now up to 90 scripts for everyone’s favourite graphics program!
Terms of service come under the spotlight. I received a Spock invite from Ken a few days ago, sorry, too many social networks, not enough socialising.
Toni is up for best CEO and WordPress is in the running for most likely to succeed. Go on, vote! It only takes a second!
Tom never read my Subscribe To Comments post and sent me comments from several other posts. Bold boy!
How do you sell photographs?

“I sold one print during my first year on the web, and that was by check, and that check bounced.” (True story).
Merry Christmas from Limerick and Nollaig Shona from Donal.
Christmas morning swim – brrrr. I can feel the cold here.

The 8 bit Philosophy is a documentary coming in 2008 about some of the musicians that made the C64 a great sounding machine. The trailer has sound bites from such famous names as Reyn Ouwehand and Thomas Detert. There’s a 78MB high quality trailer too but it’s the same thing that’s on Youtube.

Tags Bertie-Ahern, C64, Donncha's Links, irishblogs, Taoiseach

In the news Ireland

Far too much Bertie

Bertie Ahern, the Irish prime minister received a pay increase of €38,000 a few weeks ago. Not many people are happy about that. To express your disapproval, send an email to FARTOOMUCHBERTIE@gmail.com and you’ll be sent a “Far too much Bertie” sticker. 200,000 stickers have been printed so there are plenty to go around!

Via Indymedia and Kevin Cotter on the Ray D’Arcy Show.

Personally, I’d prefer to see a “Get Mary Harney out!” sticker to get rid of Mary Harney, the Health Minister. Hundreds of more cancer cases in Cork and Galway are to be reviewed. What a shambles.

Update! There’s a lively discussion on boards.ie! Welcome all from there. Please feel free to comment here too.

Tags Bertie-Ahern, Ireland, irish-politics, irishblogs, mary-harney

Ireland When-in-Ireland

Gardaí prevent summons on Taoiseach

Post author By Donncha
Post date May 22, 2003
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First I laughed at this, but then I though, “wtf! Why right do the police have obstructing a solicitor doing his job? Even if it is to issues a court summons to the prime minister of Ireland! This story has the scoop. (Thanks to Sharrow on IRC for the link)

[Solicitor John Devane] said he intended calling for a bench warrant for the arrest of both Mr Ahern and Mr Smith if they failed to come to the court on 12 June.

Tags Bertie-Ahern, Gardai, Ireland, irishblogs