I think decentralisation is a good thing for this country.
We have to get away from this concept that Dublin is Ireland.
Bertie Ahern
September 2006. |
People of small means and of big means.
Bertie Ahern
Describing guests at the Fianna Fail tent
at Galway Races, August 2006. |
How Much Is That Doggy in the Window?
Bertie Ahern
Revealing the name of one of his all-time
favorite songs, January 2006. |
I consistently denied ever receiving any money from Owen O'Callaghan
and that was, is and will remain the position.
Bertie Ahern
Statement on renewed allegations at Mahon
tribunal by Tom Gilmartin that Mr Ahern had received €80,000
in bribes, November 2005. |
The reason it's on the rise is because probably the boom times
are getting even more boomer.
Bertie Ahern
On rising inflation in the Irish economy. |
I've looked up every tree in north Dublin.
Bertie Ahern
Speaking of his investigations into Ray
Burke's past. |
This is a day we should treasure - a day when agreement and
accommodation have replaced days of difference and division.
Bertie Ahern
April 11, 1998 - the day the Good Friday
Agreement was signed. |
We are not going to apologise for any small role we may have
played in helping to remove a dictator who made his people suffer
for 20 years, carried out horrific acts and didn't care about
democracy. He is gone now, and thank God for that.
Bertie Ahern
May 2003 - speaking of the war in Iraq
and the use of Shannon Airport for US military stopovers. |
We were always dead against the war.
Bertie Ahern
December 2003, referring to war in Iraq. |
To the people of Europe who are joining us today in the European
Union I extend the hand of friendship...Today marks the triumph
of your determination and perseverance over the legacy of history.
For Europe, today marks the closure of one chapter and the opening
of another new and exciting chapter in its long history.
Bertie Ahern
May 1, 2004 - European Union enlargement. |