Ahern focused on giving the contract a good kicking

AS the party enters the last week of the campaign buoyed by the poll results, it finally has a focused strategy: to pick as many holes as possible in Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny’s Contract for a Better Ireland.

Mr Ahern started the process in the leaders’ debate, arguing that several of the initiatives in the contract were either not costed or coherent.

Yesterday, as he addressed about 200 members at a rally at the party’s election headquarters in Dublin, he stuck to that message.