A low life in high office

A witness to Bertie Ahern’s 14 days of squirming in the witness box of the Mahon corruption probe, political correspondent Shaun Connolly delivers his damning verdict.

IF Bertie Ahern’s tortuous testimony to the Mahon corruption probe had been live on TV, he would have been politically dead in the water within hours.

Watching him squirming in the witness box day after day as he peddled ever more ridiculous “explanations” — now finally nailed as lies — for the sterling and dollar cash lodgements into his myriad of bank accounts was by turns embarrassing, grimly laughable, and ultimately nauseating.