Irish Examiner view: Fianna Fáil has not closed the door on Bertie

Is Ahern's return to the fold on the cards?

Bertie Ahern: Coming back to the fold?

Momentum appears to be gathering on a return of Bertie Ahern to Fianna Fáil. It seems that little more than a €20 membership fee now stands in the way of the former party leader and taoiseach from re-joining the soldiers of destiny.

The man — who the British described in 1998 as a pragmatic deal-maker with a ruthless streak — has been little more than a curiosity in his native land since he resigned from his beloved Fianna Fáil in 2012 rather than being unceremoniously thrown out as a result of a motion proposed by his successor, Micheál Martin.