Is Berties PR machine really powerful enough to pull this off?

Not quite the case, the fact is that without the participation of ''the warring parties'' there would be no peace, no GFA. (Now certain folk want to air brush them out of history) There would be a GFA without Bertie, he just happened to be taoiseach at the time. No doubt he played some part as any other taoiseach would be expected to do....in GAA parlance, you can be 99.999% certain that Dublin would be All Ireland Senior Football champions in 2015 even if Stephen Cluxton was not their captain.

He’s disgusting. Seeing him all over the airwaves at the moment, even being interviewed on outlets I respect, like The News Agents and The Rest is Politics, and having none of his blatant and persistent corruption questioned, is turning my stomach.

He is so clearly on a media blitz to try get the lay of the land with regard to going for the presidency, he can get f**ked as far as I’m concerned.

Kelly got a few more thing right during the recession too. Very tuned in guy.

What I really despise about Bertie is that in 2002 his Government put a Constitutional amendment to us to remove suicide as a grounds for abortion. You think the 8th amendment was bad, this would have been horrific.

Just about rejected by the electorate.

Anyone under 50 is probably sour on him already but a reminder of this should turn a few more.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-fifth_Amendment_of_the_Constitution_Bill_2001

Bertie returning to the public eye is a great example of type of psychopathy we see in 'senior figures'. It really lifts the curtain back so us common folk can get a glimpse of real state of affairs of that class.

You can bankrupt a nation, force a large percentage to go to another country to work, get away with ill gotten gains and lie about winning them on horses or 'whip-arounds', retire as a parasite living off of a multi-million euro public pension sucking on the same tax payers you screwed over when serving as a non bank-account-holding member of the Dail, turn a blind eye to the US rendition flights and still, still have the brass neck to return in front of the public like nothing ever happened.

Speaking of turning blind eye to rendition flights. How would one get paid for that? What favour could have been given to Bertie or his family members..

“Speaking of turning blind eye to rendition flights. How would one get paid for that? What favour could have been given to Bertie or his family members..”

I believe he was given shares in Dunkin Donuts when they opened here.

Thats the one. Pretty demeaning for a former leader

Is there any box that says, none of the above?

This isn't going to happen.

Fianna Fáil, under this leader, or any pretender to be leader from the current crop, are not going to allow Bertie Ahern to be the party nominee in 2025.

If it isn't Micheál himself who is nominated, its likely to be a Mary McAleese type figure, maybe an Emily O' Reilly or a Catherine Day could fit the bill. Or maybe they will save the shekels and nominate nobody, depending on the prevailing winds of a new Government in the Spring of that year.

The only way Ahern gets nominated then, is via the Councils and if neither his own Party nor any others will vote for him, then his bid dies in the crib.

Anyway, its all academic, Mairéad McGuinness will stroll to victory.

Ahern won't run for President, he likes being talked about and doing the rounds of media, so there's no need for him to rule it out, if he leaves it open as a possibility he maintains an interest.

As an aside, it is interesting though how the Good Friday Agreement anniversary is bringing together Blair one of the prime instigators of the illegal war in Iraq, his central propagandist Alastair Campbell who helped lie about the war and Bertie Ahern who facilitated the illegal war through the use of Shannon Airport despite Ireland's alleged military neutrality. Ahern even met George Bush in the North to discuss 'peace' in the North while Bush's troops were murdering innocent people and now these lads are wheeled out to condemn the illegal war in Ukraine...you couldn't make it up!

Bertie doesn't need a PR machine.

He's powerful enough to pull himself off