The German authorities bribed a bank official in Liechtenstein to reveal the names of people with secret accounts there.
Irish Revenue officials asked the Germans for details of any Irish citizens on the list and the Germans, decent fellows that they are, obliged.
That information would have reached the Irish authorities last week, or maybe the week [...]

Sometimes, things just don’t add up, but you can’t quite work out why. That’s the way Bertie’s High Court challenge has affected me, and I’ve had to agonise over it for a couple of months, but I think I have it clear in my mind now.
Let’s recap.
Bertie gave an affidavit of discovery, in which [...]

Nobody believed Gráinne Carruth’s evidence.
Not the judges. Not the lawyers. Not the press. Not the general public.
In the end, it turned out that not even Gráinne Carruth believed the rehearsed lies she was parroting in defence of her former boss. In the end, it took a threat from the Tribunal’s lawyer to bring Gráinne Carruth [...]

You might be wondering why the Tribunal is asking all these questions about a private account.
Will I tell you?
The Tribunal is trying to investigate whether Bertie received a corrupt payment of £80,000 from developer Owen O Callaghan.  In order to do that, it must investigate any accounts Bertie had anything to do with.
At the moment, [...]

Bertie’s court case isn’t that complicated, you know, when you take a few minutes to look into it.
Will we do that?
Will we just take a minute or two to examine what our Leader is up to?
Right. Well you see, Bertie produced certain documents when demanded by Tribunal, but he also made a statement on [...]

… said Bertie Ahern to the Tribunal.

None of the Tribunal’s damned business that he had a safe in his office stuffed full of the cash he managed to save during his separation.
None of the Tribunal’s business and therefore none of your damned business and none of my damned business.
I see.
Perhaps somebody should remind Bertie of [...]

Update
Ahern has announced his resignation.
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Hey Bertie!! Howya doin, Kiddo? I didn’t recognise you there for a minute with the size of your nose. I swear to God, that hooter just keeps getting longer and longer every time I see you
Did you spot that report in today’s paper? That’s right, Bert. [...]

As I write this, Georgia are pounding the living shit out of Namibia, and all I’m thinking is, why the fuck couldn’t Ireland have done that?  
And then I’m thinking who the fuck cares?  Look at Burma.
Here we are, living in a corrupt, fucked up little country, where senior politicians have no shame.  We have [...]

Back in 1994, £50,000 would buy you a house. 
Not a swish house in a fancy area, it’s true, but a good house nonetheless, in a solid, decent neighbourhood.
The kind of house and neighbourhood that decent people have to save for and work hard to pay for over twenty or twenty-five years.  The sort of house [...]

Well, Bertie is finally going before the Tribunal to explain how he was given a pile of money and a house by his builder friends while he was Minister for Finance, and how there’s absolutely nothing wrong with a finance minister receiving huge financial gifts from property developers.
 
I was just trawling through the back catalogue [...]