IT’S a long way from the sunny uplands of the Good Friday Agreement to hiding in the shadows of a kitchen cupboard – but it seems there are no depths to which Bertie Ahern is not prepared to descend in the cause of self-promotion.

A rock ’n’ roll guitar-playing former pastor from the south, Mike Huckabee’s homey, grassroots appeal and unapologetic confidence in his views could serve him well on the road to the White House.

The US House of Representatives has voted to make former President Bill Clinton’s boyhood home in Hope, Arkansas, into a national historic site.