Ahern attacks Green Party for not ‘standing up and delivering’

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern launching a blistering attack on the Green Party over the weekend, dismissing its members as people who “don’t really understand” politics.

And he repeated earlier warnings by Tánaiste and PD leader Michael McDowell that the economy would go downhill in the hands of the opposition.

Referring to the forthcoming general election, Mr Ahern said: “The world won’t end if Fianna Fáil don’t win, but the economy will.”