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Bertie Ahern

Workaholic Cecelia Ahern reveals she had to take a break from writing aged 28 due to exhaustion
Cecelia Ahern
The 34-year-old has penned over 12 novels, selling more than 24 million copies worldwide
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Former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern doesn't believe Sinn Fein will abandon the IRA
Bertie Ahern
Speaking on Claire Byrne Live, Mr Ahern said he is worried about the potential fallout from the crisis in Northern Ireland
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Bertie Ahern will not turn down pension rise and was sent a noose in the mail after he left office
Bertie Ahern
The former Taoiseach added in an extensive interview with RTE that he never won unexplained money on horses - though he told the Mahon Tribunal he did
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Bertie Ahern: "Recession broke my heart.. but I did bring good times to Ireland."
Bertie Ahern
Former Taoiseach wished the economic meltdown "never happened" and he apologised for wrongs but defended his leadership during the boom years
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Dirty tricks probed at banking inquiry: Whistleblower warns of ‘preferential’ treatment and censored documents
Banking inquiry
A member working behind the scenes alleged “serious breaches” against other members including documents being censored
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Bertie Ahern pledges to defend his honour at banking inquiry but won't be 'saying much'
Bertie Ahern
New evidence has emerged over his relationship with international financiers in the weeks and months after he stood down as Taoiseach
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Aine Hegarty: Greece deserves a good break and so does Ireland
European Union
Irish Mirror columnist says if Irish Government had tried to dampen property bubble the crash may not have been so severe
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Brian Cowen and Bertie Ahern get a pension top-up as benefits payments to one-parent families are cut
Brian Cowen
The former leaders already pocket around €134,000 a year, but are expected to get a top-up of around €2,000
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Former Finance Minister Charlie McCreevy refuses to apologise for devastation caused after the boom years
Fianna Fail
The ex-Fianna Fail politician was in charge of the country's finances from 1997 to 2004 under the leadership of former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern
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Bertie Ahern opens up old wounds by branding the late Brian Lenihan 'difficult'
Bertie Ahern
In a new documentary Lenihan: A Legacy which will be shown on RTE this Tuesday at 9.35pm, the former Taoiseach took a swipe at Mr Lenihan’s background
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Green-fingered Bertie Ahern loves a dig out in the garden as he reveals his secrets to happiness
Bertie Ahern
He said the secret of happiness is not dwelling on the past, enjoying time with his family and with his flowers and vegetables
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Micheal Martin hits back as Averil Power blasts Fianna Fail before quitting party
Politics
The senator resigned from the party citing a "cynical and cowardly approach to the marriage equality referendum" and said Mr Martin lacked leadership
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Pat Flanagan: The mask slips to reveal coalition's virtual reality
Enda Kenny
Ministers boast the economy is booming but when workers look for a rise, they claim the country’s broke
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Bertie Ahern and Brian Cowen still receiving ministerial pensions worth over €80,000, Dail told
Bertie Ahern
The former taoisigh led the country into the worst economic disaster in Irish history
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Fianna Fail must never share power with Fine Gael, warns lifelong party member at Ard Fheis
Fianna Fail
The call came from delegates at the Fianna Fail Ard Fheis who descended on the RDS in the capital to share their views on the direction the party should take - and many warned its leaders not to form a coalition with Enda Kenny
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Dad-of-two executed in broad daylight is nephew of Gerry “Hatchet” Kavanagh who was murdered in Spain last year
Gangland
Paul Kavanagh was blasted in the head and body by two gunman who ruthlessly tracked him before the hit
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Taoiseach's Department staff feel bullied or harassed at work, survey reveals
Bertie Ahern
Study shows 66% of staff do not think working environment has improved during Mr Kenny's tenure
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Take a tour inside Bertie Ahern's beloved St Luke's which has been put on the market for €595,000
Bertie Ahern
Fianna Fail is flogging the red-brick house in Drumcondra which served as the former Taoiseach's constituency office and bolthole
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Socalist TD Ruth Coppinger facing Dail probe after being accused of referring to Gardai as 'dogs'
An Garda Siochana
Ms Coppinger used the phrase to “call off the dogs” when she asked Tanaiste Joan Burton to stop the scourge of arrests over a protest in Jobstown
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Gary O'Flynn: Former Fianna Fail councillor pleads guilty to soliciting to kill three people
Courts
O'Flynn pleaded guilty to soliciting a named person to kill a Revenue Commissioner, a garda and an accountant in Cork
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Clancy's craic: It’s no big deal that Leo Varadkar is gay
Leo Varadkar
All anybody is really interested knowing about him is can he sort out the mess that is Ireland’s struggling health system
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Charlie: It’s grotesque, unbelievable, bizarre and unprecedented (and that’s just Bertie’s hair..)
Aidan Gillen
The second in the three part drama series focused on the period around 1982, a time coined GUBU after the former Taoiseach himself described the era as “Grotesque, Unbelievable, Bizarre and Unprecedented”
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Former Fianna Fail TD Ned O'Keeffe fined €3.5k for phone fraud
Fianna Fail
Ex-junior minister admitted filing fake invoices for his expenses
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Former Agriculture Minister Joe Walsh remembered at his funeral as a “decent country gentleman”
Bertie Ahern
Former Taoisigh Brian Cowen and Bertie Ahern, ministers, colleagues, friends, relatives and loyal supporters flocked to Clonakilty to pay their final respects to an “extraordinary, ordinary man”
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