Bertie the dark horse? I wouldn’t bet on it

BERTIE AHERN either has a very lucky touch with the gee-gees or his tribunal evidence is made up of the stuff horses leave behind them on the ground.

Unfortunately, the bouts of sustained laughter from the public gallery that greeted his testimony did not bode well for belief in his gambling skills.

The odds were always going to be long on Mr Ahern coming up with a convincing explanation as to why he said only wages went into his Irish Permanent accounts when, in fact, a large wodge of sterling did, but few would have backed the tired old nag he tried to make a break for it on yesterday.