Would you embrace Bertie just like that busted property developer?

THE sight of a handshake would have been hard enough to stomach, but the picture of beaming former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern being embraced in a bear-hug by NAMA resident property developer Johnny Ronan last Tuesday, at the opening of the Dublin Convention Centre, was nauseating.

Here were two men high on the list of those culpable for landing this nation in the mess it’s in rubbing our noses in it as they enjoyed another big day out.

The last time we saw a picture of Ronhan embracing anybody it was on the front page of a tabloid newspaper; he was locked in a romantic clinch with former Miss World Rosanna Davison, a woman less than half his age.