Article: Rehabilitation of disgraced Bertie is a shameless act. But who will cry foul? Big smile: Bertie Ahern is back performing for the public.

Byline: RICHARD WAGHORNE

BERTIE Ahern was a real fan and not a prawn sandwich and champagne mer-c h a n t . Thus spake Eamon Dunphy, scourge of Bertie Ahern on the Late Late Show before the latter's resignation, offering his opinion on the former Taoiseachs hosting of The Road To Croker.

Scarcely half a year ago, when the Taoiseach resigned for what the international media called corruption concerns, it seemed an outside bet that he would resurface as a soft-focus television personality to the applause of his detractors.

How foolish to imagine so. With this countrys usual indulgence of populist wrongdoers, it is safe to say by now that the ...

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