They keep on treating us like eejits

HERE’S a piece of spin. It’s actually a piece of political guff, from a master of the genre. It mightn’t look like it on the surface, but it shows how devious and cunning its author is. And how much he deserves to be watched.

It's taken from Gerard Barry's This Week programme on RTÉ on Sunday. Our Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, is talking (I've shortened it a bit, but I haven't changed it in any meaningful way):

"Charlie McCreevy and I, the two of us in particular, faced the onslaught I said continually there would be no cutbacks in health and I was berated for that.