Taoiseach seeking a marriage of minds

LIKE a furtive farmer at a Lisdoonvarna find-a-wife- dance Taoiseach BertieAhern has been eyeing up potential brides.

A man of simple pleasures, he just wants a bit of security for the next five years from someone who is prepared to make room in the relationship for the Bass and the Dubs, but who will still be there for him on those long Dáil nights and hold his hand during the no-confidence votes.

Initially mesmerising, his startling election comeback is now revealed to leave things pretty much on a knife-edge with aphoto-finish of FF: 78, Rainbows: 77.