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Fri 10 Oct 2009Treading a path through weird and wonderful world of Ahern and his money
BOOK OF THE DAY: DEAGLAN DE BREADUNreviews Bertie Ahern and the Drumcondra Mafia; By Michael Clifford and Shane Coleman; Hachette Books Ireland. 377pp. € 14.99
THERE IS a classic story of Bertie Ahern in the peace process. The Ulster Unionist Party were meeting the then-taoiseach with Tony Blair, to lodge a major complaint on an issue of the day. Having heard the UUP spokesman out, Blair, without a moment’s hesitation, called on Ahern to respond. As an insider tells it, Ahern spoke four sentences: each of them made sense on its own but, taken as a whole, his statement was indecipherable. As the UUP group pondered all the possible meanings of what he had just said, Blair moved swiftly on:
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