Wedding ‘private’, says Bertie’s brother

BERTIE AHERN’S brother has defended the Taoiseach’s shunning of the media at his daughter’s wedding last weekend, saying that the marriage of Georgina and Nicky Byrne should have been treated as a private affair, notwithstanding the couple’s deal with a celebrity magazine.

Alderman Maurice Ahern, a former Lord Mayor of Dublin, said his brother faced a stark choice.

“He had two choices. Go to the wedding or not go to the wedding.