Bertie’s mandate

ANYONE else fed up with the Fianna Fáil mantra being bleated out by Brian Cowen, Mary Hanafin, et al ... that Bertie Ahern has a mandate from the electorate to be Taoiseach?

He was never elected Taoiseach by the people of Ireland.

Recently he used taxpayers’ money to buy support from the all-sorts — PDs, Greens and a number of Independents — to continue as Taoiseach. He was then elected by Fianna Fáil TDs and those whose support he had bought.