An interview. How humble. Sorry you have to click through to Youtube to watch it. But in case you forget what he sounds like and the sort of analysis €30,000 gets you.
Entries Tagged as 'Bertie Earner'
Bertie earns again
March 26th, 2012 · 5 Comments · Irish Politics
So the other day I was wondering about the Bertie Earners and speculating if they would ever go away. Well they haven’t. He’s in Nigeria, spotted by Clement Esebamen and others and he’s making a plenary speech. He’s there addressing the Ogun State Investors Forum. The Honourable Bertie Ahern they tell us …served as prime [...]
Bertie heads to China …again
November 16th, 2011 · 8 Comments · Irish Politics
If you wondered where Bertie Ahern was last weekend when he missed the inauguration well you’d be right in thinking like me that he was on a ‘Bertie-earner’. He was in Shanghai at the Huatuo CEO forum speaking at a meeting also addressed by Bill Clinton and Rudi Giulliani. This is Bertie’s fourth trip to [...]
Bertie Ahern does China again
July 18th, 2011 · 7 Comments · Uncategorized
Former Chairman Ahern is off on his travels again. He was a guest of the Chinese government’s Foreign Policy institute in May and now he’s back again to impact his knowledge of things ecological. This weekend he’s been in China attending the Eco Forum Guiyang which is in the South West province of Guizhou. The [...]
Bertie goes to China…again
May 10th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Irish Politics
What does a former Taoiseach do in his spare time? Head east. At the invitation of the Chinese People’s Institute of Foreign Affairs(CPIFA),Mr. Bertie Ahern, former Prime Minister of Ireland, visited China from 26 to 30 April. Ambassador Cheng Tao, Vice President of CPIFA, Mr. Loujiwei, Board Chairman of China Investment Corp.,met with Mr. Ahern. [...]
Bertie talks about Nigeria… again
April 14th, 2011 · 8 Comments · Irish Politics
Today’s Irish Times covers an interview given to a business research publication on Nigeria and what Bertie Ahern thinks must be done to improve the economy and how they can learn from Ireland’s woes. (h/t to Mark Coughlan who brought the interview to my attention on Tuesday! ) Amongst other issues he mentions Public Private [...]
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Bertie Earners are up 25%
April 20th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Irish Politics
Thanks to Ken Foxe in last weekend’s Sunday Tribune for the discovery that the cost of a Bertie Earner has risen by approximately 25% this year. And that’s before first class travel expenses for himself and his travelling companion are added on. The Washington Speakers Bureau still list the four types of speech that Bertie [...]
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The Artist known as Bertie Ahern
January 5th, 2010 · 36 Comments · Irish Politics
I’ve spotted from the recently updated list of determinations from the Revenue Commissioners that Bertie Ahern applied for and has been granted an Artist’s Exemption for his autobiography – Bertie Ahern: The Autobiography. The book was commissioned by Cornerstone, an imprint of Random House for over €400,000 and has been noted for it’s less than [...]
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Bertie Ahern signs for the News of the World
August 4th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Irish Media, Irish Politics, Sport
It’s been a while since I’ve brought you news on a Bertie earner – being the recession and all I suppose times are tough for the Iar Taoiseach and the way he might scratch a few euros to make up for his pension levy losses. However news reaches us today of Bertie Ahern’s signing as [...]
Bertie Earner to Nigeria – Solving the Niger Delta Crisis
April 29th, 2009 · 15 Comments · Uncategorized
The economy may be in its boots throughout the world and the country in a big big mess (reading the ESRI report today is not for the queasy). However Bertie Ahern and his Office of the Iar Taoiseach are still finding invites to talk about the economic miracle that he (says he) was responsible for [...]
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