Political Correspondent Shaun Connolly asks is Hurricane Bertie in danger of blowing out.

IT’S day 870 in Bertie’s Big Bother house.

THE tribunal was back as the most popular show in Dublin this week. But this time it was not as a drama but as pure farce.

Former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern is due back in the Mahon Tribunal this morning for more questioning about his personal finances in the 1990s.

FORMER taoiseach Bertie Ahern angrily rejected a suggestion that he was wrong to claim last May that the Mahon tribunal had not given him information about sterling lodgments that could have saved his former secretary, Gráinne Carruth, from returning to give evidence.

BERTIE AHERN either has a very lucky touch with the gee-gees or his tribunal evidence is made up of the stuff horses leave behind them on the ground.

Bertie Ahern has told the Mahon Tribunal today that some of the sterling lodgements made to his accounts in the early 1990s were winnings from bets on horses.

Bertie Ahern has told the Mahon Tribunal that although he learned that some lodgements to his bank accounts were in sterling before his former secretary took the stand, he did not contact her to tell her.

Former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern is due back in the witness box at the Mahon Tribunal today to face further questions about his financial dealings in the 1990s.

COULD someone from Fianna Fáil tell us where the new party headquarters will be, assuming Fagans is out?

SHE was the Queen of Hearts, he was the king of dig-outs - and both were laid low by vast conspiracies orchestrated by their enemies.

OUTGOING Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has declared the failure to build a national stadium his biggest regret in politics and blamed “small-minded people” for opposing the project.

IT is disgraceful that Bertie Ahern should attack the Mahon Tribunal for the way it dealt with his secretary, Gráinne Carruth.

BARELY 24 hours after his announced resignation, I was very disturbed to hear Taoiseach Bertie Ahern describe the Mahon Tribunal as “low life”.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern had another swipe at the Mahon Tribunal on Thursday, just one day after he announced his resignation effective from May 6.

The Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, has launched a stinging attack on the Mahon Tribunal during an interview with reporters in Dublin today.

IN THE end, Bertie Ahern was laid low by the tale of two secretaries.

DID he jump or was he pushed?

BY ANNOUNCING his departure date yesterday, the Taoiseach instantly removed the opposition and media chains from around his neck.

IT SHOULD have been Bertie Ahern’s moment in the spotlight, but Brian Cowen managed to walk away with yesterday’s Leader’s Questions as easily as he is set to take the Fianna Fáil crown.

BERTIE AHERN had lost the public.

EVERYONE, it seems, is dampening expectations — even the opposition.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern today began a High Court challenge to limit the work of the Mahon Tribunal probing planning corruption in the 1990s.

A CLEAR pattern has begun to emerge of government ministers proving reluctant to express their belief in Taoiseach Bertie Ahern’s evidence to the Mahon Tribunal.

A CONSTANT in the Fianna Fáil defence of the money flying into Bertie Ahern’s bank accounts in the 1990s is that the sums involved were not very substantial.

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TÁNAISTE Mary Harney and Environment Minister John Gormley did yesterday what a growing number of Taoiseach Bertie Ahern’s disconcerted colleagues have been doing for some time, but at least, and at last, they did it in public.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern must act now to dispel "considerable public disquiet" about conflicting evidence on his personal finances given to the Mahon Tribunal, Minister for Health Mary Harney said today.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern will honour his former British counterpart, Tony Blair, at a charity fundraising dinner in Dublin next month.

IRISH politicians won’t thank Eddie O’Sullivan for making resignations fashionable as Bertie Ahern’s tribunal troubles took another turn for the worse this week.

AFTER admitting she lodged sterling on behalf of the Taoiseach, his former constituency office secretary Gráinne Carruth broke down in the Mahon Tribunal witness box yesterday.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern would have given her oral instructions when he gave her money to lodge on his behalf, his former constituency secretary Gráinne Carruth told the Mahon Tribunal yesterday.

WILL the £66-a-week secretary finally bring Bertie Ahern’s swaying house of financial cards collapsing down around him?

SO, ANOTHER strand of the Taoiseach’s evidence to the Mahon Tribunal is in conflict with the recollections of those who are in a position to substantiate his story.

The Labour Party has said that Bertie Ahern's position as Taoiseach and Fianna Fáil leader is now untenable following the latest revelations at the Mahon Tribunal.

The Taoiseach's former constituency secretary has admitted that money she paid into his building society account on his behalf was the proceeds of Sterling exchanges.

A former constituency secretary of the Taoiseach is due back before the Mahon Tribunal this morning after being told to reflect on her evidence overnight.