This column originally appeared in the 8 June 2008 Irish Mail on Sunday (not available online). Bonus material after the jump:
Trust in you? (In the print edition, accompanied by a still from the Jungle Book - certainly a first for an OpEd of mine, not counting extemp ones delivered aloud including, ‘time for bed’)
Richard Delevan
You’re [...]
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not bad for a guy who, as Morning Irealand helpfully recapped, says he isn’t a betting man…but now the sterling lodgements, Bertie Ahern told the Mahon Tribunal yesterday, were the result of long-forgotten winnings at the track in Britain. A nation slowly shakes its head.
Miriam Lord:
It took a long time to get to this [...]
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Bertie Ahern tells Aengus Fanning in this morning’s Sunday Independent:
“The reality of the situation is that 100 years ago it was Parnell, 10 years ago it was Clinton, today it’s me and tomorrow it will be somebody else.”
Wow.
I’ve argued for several weeks - privately, sadly - that just this line of thinking, explicitly [...]
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Who says Irish politics can’t catch up with the YouTube era? It’s one thing for a journo to dig out an old quote and re-print it in a piece. It’s really a qualitative difference, a step change, to see it from the horse’s mouth (or whatever orifice from which it emanates).
Anyway, Gavin Sheridan digs [...]
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This column first appeared in the Sunday Tribune on 20 May 2007.
Richard Delevan
“Ireland’s hour has come.” History - measured in bombings, emigrants, GDP growth or number of U2 tracks sold on iTunes - suggests that John Kennedy’s watch was running about 40 years fast that day in Dublin. But Kennedy’s phrase - deployed by Bertie [...]
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This column originally appeared in the Sunday Tribune on 13 May 2007.
Richard DelevanWould you vote for a party whose leader promised to lengthen your working week? It’s a proposal, we tend to assume, that would rank up there in popularity with promises to raise your taxes, reduce the amount spent on health and education and [...]
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