Bertie sings off cardinal’s hymn sheet

A GOOD sermon stays with a listener forever — but that’s not necessarily a good thing.

Something in Bertie Ahern’s defence of his High Court challenge to the Mahon Tribunal yesterday rang very familiar. Something about the “my heart’s not in it but my hands are tied” attitude seemed like a rip-off of a recently read script.

And then the penny, or was it the dollar or pound, dropped. This was the same line and tone adopted by Cardinal Desmond Connell when he preached about the merits of blocking another state inquiry.