Bertie ploughs on regardless but will the mud stick?

THEY say a politician in trouble ploughs a lonely furrow but the Taoiseach was never one to cultivate proverbs.

Bertie ploughs on regardless  but will the mud stick?

Just like in 1993, when friends gathered to pull him out of a personal quagmire, Bertie’s backers turned out in tractor-loads at the World Ploughing Championships yesterday with the communal urgency of a political hay-saving exercise.

“Never mind them oul’ gobshites,” a voice in the crowd roared as Bertie arrived at the Fianna Fáil tent to be mobbed by supporters and deafened by cheers and applause.

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