Bertie’s choice: Go with dignity or risk joining the political low-life

The Taoiseach will be making a terrible blunder if he tries to exploit the innate decency and compassion that people feel for him by abusing those who did their job in exposing his wrongdoing.

He accepted money from people as a minister. He denounced that behaviour when Haughey was exposed

UNLIKE his more immediate predecessors within Fianna Fáil, Bertie Ahern will be remembered as a safe pair of hands. There were no great surprises or gambles. He was an astute political operator.