Bertie resolves to ‘work harder’ in New Year

THE Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, has promised to exercise more as he joins two thirds of the population in vowing to get fit in 2007.

As the clock struck 12 this morning, an estimated eight million resolutions were made by Irish people brimming with good intentions.

And the leader of the country was no exception: “I’m going to have to train a little harder, run more days than in 2006, work a bit harder, if that’s possible,” said Bertie Ahern.