King of dig-outs styles himself queen of hearts
Bertie Ahern invoked the memory of the blessed Princess of Wales yesterday as he bemoaned the fact that his tribunal ordeal had been going on for 11 years while the ever-efficient Brits got her inquest done and dusted in six months. In fact, that verdict came more than a decade after her death, and wading through the quagmire of who may, or may not, have murdered Diana was nothing compared to the complexities of the Taoiseach’s myriad bank accounts.
Not that British television viewers would have gleaned such subtleties from Mr Ahern’s interview with Sky News, in which he portrayed the Irish system as doing things backward and being intent on bringing down the innocent.