No surprise Bertie turns up in a cupboard

IT’S a long way from the sunny uplands of the Good Friday Agreement to hiding in the shadows of a kitchen cupboard – but it seems there are no depths to which Bertie Ahern is not prepared to descend in the cause of self-promotion.

Though with the current Taoiseach allowing his high office to be trashed across the globe due to late night gallivanting in Galway, why should his predecessor show it any respect either?

“I never thought I’d end up here...” Bertie deadpans from the inside of a larder as he advertises a Sunday tabloid, but this turn of events comes as no surprise to those of us who sat through his 14 tortuous days in the witness box of the Mahon tribunal – we always knew the level of performance he was capable of giving.