Bertie Ahern
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Oct 27, 2026
Gavin J. GallagherHOST
What made it especially memorable was the backlash.
Gavin J. GallagherHOST
The Taoiseach of the day, Bertie Ahern, reportedly called the show irresponsible and inaccurate.
Gavin J. GallagherHOST
The Irish Auctioneers and Valuers Institute complained that it was partial and had damaged the property market.
Gavin J. GallagherHOST
I remember the day after everyone was talking about it and the agents were calling around to try to calm everyone down and issue a public response.
Micheál LehanePANELIST
she's extremely good.
Micheál LehanePANELIST
In some ways, it reminded me of Bertie Ahern and his ability to speak in statistics in a way more articulate way, but the approach was similar.
Micheál LehanePANELIST
But ultimately, opposition do find a way through that in the end, but I think it could take them some time with this minister.
Kuno SheridanPANELIST
There was an interesting mixture of being firm and very clear and defending a position rigorously and at the same time recognising where opposition spokespeople had a point and recognising their goodwill, which has been something we haven't seen so much of lately.
John PatrickGUEST
So we have St Patrick's Day there, and we have the Gortar Moor, which is the family memorial cross.
John PatrickGUEST
What you have here is this cross was unveiled in 2001 by the Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern.
John PatrickGUEST
But there was protests by the opening of that.
John PatrickGUEST
And here the police were deployed because people saw that as being sympathising with the IRA.
TJHOST
It's a B-rate competition.
TJHOST
It's a dirty, disgusting county that the likes of Bertie Ahern and Jason Sherlock and Jim Gavin have got their grubby little fingerprints all over it.
Fat LarryHOST
Yeah.
Fat LarryHOST
And even though a lot of those guys are gone now and Dublin are indeed quite shit, you know, we don't forget here.
David McCullaghHOST
Yeah.
Fionnán SheahanGUEST
And Bertie Ahern used to have a, a, a good old phrase, uh, from his days as, as Minister for Labour, "Get down the items that you agree with on first, and then you can talk about the things you disagree on." And they're not at that point yet, because they're still not agreeing even on the, on the format, uh, of, of the talks.
David McCullaghHOST
Yeah.
David McCullaghHOST
Uh, I presume there are moves afoot behind the scenes.
Frank ConnollyGUEST
Charlie Haughey was the subject of investigations under what was called the McCracken, uh, uh, McCracken investigation at the time.
Frank ConnollyGUEST
Uh, and all of this was clouding around Fianna Fáil, and Bertie Ahern in particular, as he planned to become Taoiseach for the first time during, uh, after a general election in June.
Frank ConnollyGUEST
And I'll just mention an incident that I had, which brings us up to date.
AudreyHOST
Mm.
Frank ConnollyGUEST
At one stage, I met Bertie Ahern.
Frank ConnollyGUEST
It was the day of the election.
Frank ConnollyGUEST
Not the day of the count, the day of the actual election, in a pub in North Dublin, uh, hi- one of his local pubs, and I was there, um, it was after I'd been working and obviously on the election as well, and, um, as a journalist, and he called me over and said to me, "What's all this stuff you're writing about in the Business Post about this unnamed Fianna Fáil politician?" He, he knew.
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Frank ConnollyGUEST
Burke already had it, he said.
Mick CliffordHOST
Unfortunately, things didn't work out too well for him.
Mick CliffordHOST
He took over from Bertie Ahern just as the economic storm clouds were gathering in 2008, and by the time he stepped down nearly three years later, Ireland was dependent on the kindness of strangers.
Mick CliffordHOST
But what was his legacy? Brian Cowen: Anatomy of a Taoiseach is written by Professor Gary Murphy from DCU, and it offers a detailed and digestible insight into the man and the politician, his time, and I suppose it might be fair to say, his unfulfilled promise.
Mick CliffordHOST
Gary joins me now.
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Mick CliffordHOST
But overall, how did you find Brian Cowen? A- and the reason I ask this, Gary, is because, as I say, publicly there's been so little seen or heard from him, from largely since he, since he left office.
Gary MurphyGUEST
Yeah.
Gary MurphyGUEST
And, a- and if you perhaps look at his, uh, his predecessor, Bertie Ahern, who we hear quite a lot of, uh, still in relation to peace processes across the, the globe, and also in relation to current events like the Garvaghy Road, where he's been quite vocal in a number of, uh, interviews and on things like social partnership with the strike of, uh, public sector workers, uh, this, this week.
Gary MurphyGUEST
Um, uh, Brian Cowen is different because certainly I think the circumstances of which his, his tenure ended have, have made it different.
Fiachra Ó CionnaithPANELIST
... like, uh, an adjudicator.
Fiachra Ó CionnaithPANELIST
Um, some journalists, uh, perhaps joking at that press conference, not asking him, but maybe, maybe they could bring Bertie Ahern or someone in, or who knows?
Barry LenehanPANELIST
[laughs] But-
Fiachra Ó CionnaithPANELIST
But we didn't, we weren't brave enough to ask Micheál that, though.
Barry CumminsHOST
And I remember she saw an opportunity, uh, with me to generate even more publicity for missing persons.
Barry CumminsHOST
So when I'd written, uh, the book, "Missing," uh, back in 2003, the first edition of it, she arranged That I would present a copy of this book, uh, to Taoiseach Bertie Ahern.
Katja MiaHOST
Mm-hmm.
Barry CumminsHOST
This was her idea entirely.
Barry CumminsHOST
I remember we walked up to government buildings, and we were ushered in.
Barry CumminsHOST
Uh, Mary had made the arrangements, uh, through a local TD, John McGuinness.
Barry CumminsHOST
Uh, next thing, we were in government buildings, and Bertie Ahern walked in, and we had some photographs taken, and I gave him a copy of the book.
Barry CumminsHOST
And Mary kind of spoke through the cases, and she was say- she pointed out Jo Jo, but she was saying, "And look, there are other cases"-
Frank ConnollyGUEST
Charlie Hawhey was the subject of investigations under what was called the McCracken investigation at the time.
Frank ConnollyGUEST
And all of this was clouding around Fianna Fáil and Bertie Ahern in particular, as he planned to become Taoiseach for the first time after a general election in June.
Frank ConnollyGUEST
And I'll just mention an incident that I had, which brings us up to date.
Frank ConnollyGUEST
At one stage, I met Bertie Ahern.
Frank ConnollyGUEST
It was the day of the election, not the day of the count, the day of the actual election in a pub in North Dublin.
Frank ConnollyGUEST
one of his local pubs.
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Frank ConnollyGUEST
He had been hit for money for millions and millions of pounds, as they were by various people in politics and in business.
Frank ConnollyGUEST
He had been forced out of his own company by his business partner, a guy called Oana Callan in Cork.
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