Ahern’s critics pilloried for daring to ask questions

FOLLOWING the kiss-and-make-up routine by the Taoiseach and the Tánaiste, what does the whole affair tell us about the health of our democracy?

Democratic rule cannot operate if those who are elected to high office are not held accountable for their actions by those who elected them.

Yet those who have vindicated that right in recent weeks by asking questions about the 1993 payments to Bertie Ahern have been pilloried.