Taoiseach just can’t get his story straight

AS his image rapidly shifts from Teflon Taoiseach to Rent-A-Bertie, so too have the explanations he’s left scattered behind him on the money trail.

While wiser men may have kept their own counsel, Mr Ahern’s loose language and love of talking has fuelled an inferno which otherwise may have burned itself out.

For all the protestation about his private life being dragged out into the light, it was the Taoiseach who gave the original tribunal leak story ‘legs’ by indulging in a stream of consciousness in Clare that brought in everything from his separation to his Holy Communion money.