Former Taoiseach simply reminds us of Bertie Ahern’s wrongdoing

IN all fairness, Bertie Ahern should organise a whip-around for his old buddy Joe Burke, who obliged when the Taoiseach hit a spot of bother himself a few years back.

The builder was one of the businessmen who gave Bertie Ahern a dig-out, the equivalent of €50,000 in two stage payments, when Bertie was Finance Minister in Albert Reynolds’ Government.

Joe probably could use a dig-out himself right now after his company, J and H Burke, was wound up last Monday with debts of €1 million.