Article: BERTIE AHERN doesn't often find himself out of step with popular opinion. In fact, one of the main criticisms levelled at him over the years is that such is his devotion to the national pulse that he has too often tried to please all the people to the detriment of taking hard decisions.

Article: Irish arrangements: a prime minister and his ...
Commonweal;  February 12, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... would take the Irish Catholic church to task for not being ... Irish Republic, Bertie Ahern, which is currently ... attitude toward the Catholic church has sometimes been ... conservatism. The Catholic church's attitude toward ...

Article: DEVILS OF THE CHURCH: NEVER AGAIN; - BERTIE AHERN ...
The Mirror (London, England);  October 27, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... investigated to root out paedophile priests, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern promised yesterday. The horrific scale of systematic abuse ... our knowledge to ensure it never happens again. "For the Catholic Church itself across the country, a national audit would be in ...

Article: FF gearing up for the long march North; Taoiseach Bertie ...
The Daily Mail (London, England);  October 22, 2007 ;     635 words ...Byline: SCOTT MILLAR BERTIE Ahern intends to push on with the organisation of Fianna Fail inthe ... founders of the United Irishmen, who opposed Britishrule, the Catholic Church and the political corruption endemic in the Irelandof the 1790s ...

Article: Victims look to Catholic Church to make a full ...
The Sunday Herald;  September 24, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... families, are now suing the Catholic Church there. Allegations include ... Australia and Ireland the Catholic Church has publicly apologised ... Ireland's Prime Minister Bertie Ahern on behalf of the Catholic Church in Ireland. But last week ...

Article: CONTINUATION: 'Nobody, it seems, knows just who the real ...
Sunday Independent (Dublin, Republic of Ireland);  October 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...relationship with Bertie Ahern was over, although neither wanted ... if they still had a relationship Bertie Ahern answered: "As far as I know we ... made St Luke's so important to Bertie Ahern was that his close confidants wer ...

Article: LIPPY LIZ; Do I like Bertie Ahern? Not really, no! ...
The People (London, England);  March 27, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... stinging personal attack on Taoiseach Bertie Ahern. The outspoken TD said she doesn ... but said she'd be "disturbed if Bertie Ahern thought I was a great politician ... could never trust him. "Do I like Bertie Ahern? Not particularly no! Neither as a ...

Article: Rehabilitation of disgraced Bertie is a shameless act. But who ...
The Daily Mail (London, England);  September 6, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Byline: RICHARD WAGHORNE BERTIE Ahern was a real fan and not a prawn ... spake Eamon Dunphy, scourge of Bertie Ahern on the Late Late Show before the ... the national rehabilitation of Bertie Ahern is well and truly under way even ...