Bertie Ahern rejoins Fianna Fail

Heeeeree's Bertie!

Step 2: Presidential candidate.

I really, really hope this happens, just so he is utterly humiliated.

FG must be pissing themselves, all the bad news around Hep C compensation, nursing homes, and then FF go an pull this.

He must think we all have very short memories.

FF really don't want to win the next election do they?

The boom is going to get boomier.

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I wonder how he paid his fees, FF don’t appear to take cash…

He’s not bothered about boards cranks

If FG had any integrity, which they don't, due to the fact they are a political party, they would pull out of government right now. They spent the first tenure of their current ruling regime decrying every single aspect of Ahern's rule, blaming all the hardship, all the trauma, all of the disaster on his policies.

If they just conveniently forget/ignore all of that right now, they are just as complicit, because it shows them up for what they are, two faced hypocritical shysters. And that's what they all are. All of them. A regime of entitled scum laughing at you and me, the ones who pay their way.

I'm actually delighted at this. It finally proves the political establishment literally do not give a single solitary f**k about the ordinary citizen.

Delighted. More votes lost for the power swap.

As he admitted he lied to the Mahon tribunal yet??

Phoenix magazine said a few months ago FF want him back for the 25th anniversary of the GFA, which is this year. They don't want Sinn Fein to get all the glory for that.

God had forgotten about that lol

😂 it’s the first thing they came into my head!

He will crash and burn. The Dubs aren't that stupid.

I hahaha have today rejoined dadadada Fianna Fail papapapapa party.

He has the option of bitcoin now - he's finally got a good reason for not needing a bank account (well not one anyone needs to know about...)

Here come the good times baby. next we will here Lillies bordello is open til 5 am

Whats the problem, Sh'rr he only won it on the horses, bring back the good old days of the FF tent at the Galway races - a run for President , he must be on the champagne again

I think FF are banking on some kind of 90s nostalgia vote where those who enjoyed the fruits of the Celtic Tiger and an end to the Troubles are now in that category of elderly voter who nevwr miss an election.

His presidential campaign can only be about harking back to former glories and ignoring difficult questions (remember the Mahon tribunal or that time he stormed out of an interview with a German journalist who asked him about his role in the recession?). It will be gaslighting of the highest order.

Its disappointing (at the same time, reassuring) that FF folded and let him back in. Disappointing that they haven't learned anything, reassuring because it shows that they are still the same at the heart of it.

I hope he gets slaughtered innthe presidential elections but I fear he will get a decent amount of votes, especially if he's up against the likes of Sean Gallagher and Peter Casey; I reckon it'll be a case of the devil you know for a lot of people.

It's absolutely hilarious that FF allowed this. The utter f*cking contempt they have for everyone is supposed to be hidden, yet letting Bertie back in with a likely run for President is basically peacocking that contempt.

I hope that interview of Bertie being questioned by the German interviewer from Conflict Zone is just played on a loop for the entire next Presidential election. Never get tired of watching it.

Saw this last night for the first time. I wonder does he think he'll be able to avoid these questions if he runs for election.

Is it a concern for FF, or any party, other than shouting about it? Its not as if the others are full of saints, or the Dail, loads of dodgy politicians elected election after election.

Just today's news really, probably won't be long till someone else takes the dodgy headlines.