Black belt Bertie gets a kick out of Tae Kwon-Do honour

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern might be riding high in most of the recent opinion polls but, yesterday, the Fianna Fáil leader was facing the chop.

More used to attending sporting theatres like Croke Park and Old Trafford at weekends, Bertie found himself in the unlikely setting of the Irish National Tae Kwon-Do Association (INTA) HQ in Dublin’s Exchequer Street.

Although well used to rolling with the punches of political life, the Taoiseach looked on nervously as he and his burly bodyguards faced a roomful of more than 20 Tae Kwon-Do practitioners.