‘He didn’t do anything wrong’, chorus the parrots in subservience

BERTIE AHERN’S misfortune stemmed from a comatose loan that was awakened anonymously and revealed to the Irish Times.

The Tánaiste, Justice Minister and leader of the Progressive Democrats, Michael McDowell, was like a nodding dog on the rear window of the Fianna Fáil car for a while.

He seemed to just sit there and said nothing, despite the fact the political world was falling in on the leader of his coalition Government.