Throw the book at Bertie and look at real story

I SEE from Bertie Ahern’s autobiography that he laments not spending more time with his family and not having worked harder at his marriage.

I agree so much with him. We would have missed so little.

Perhaps if he had been a better husband we might not have had the type of politics he worked so hard to cultivate, including the public service ethos he fostered of appointing people not for money but because they were friends. For this we have Neary-style bank regulation, Fás-like ethical governance, O’Donoghue-type endless waffle and excusing-making when caught.