Bertie Episode 2 | Two Digouts and a Dinner

The second episode was broadcast on 10 November 2008,[12] commenced with the 1990 Irish presidential election, in which Mary Robinson became the country's first female president, and follows Ahern's career up to his appointment as leader of the Fianna Fáil political party in 1994.

[@robertnolan5785]

Bertie's mother telling him 'Make sure you do everyting honest', the mother always knows best 😂😂😂

[@Kickback-dm7zt]

"I didn't give him cash... I was helping a friend out" ... That sums it up in a nutshell

[@123brownjames]

Bertie Ahern comes across as very ruthless.

[@aaronbourke7621]

To be taoiseach of Ireland, prime minister or president of a big country, you have to be the most ruthless and scary

[@alanobrien4020]

@@aaronbourke7621 what about liz truss she had the ruthless ambitions of a sheep asleep 😴

[@stephent9677]

"Rootless"

[@ghostofgralton6859]

The '93 tax amnesty is fascinating, controversial at the time but now forgotten about. Would be nice to know who exactly benefitted

[@kierandoran8196]

It has not been forgotten. Our Leprechaun President was instrumental in it's inception. Michael, another shameless liar.

[@joemcdonnell2436]

As an Irish man,who has lived in different parts of the world and still do,i can say that i have never came across a more jealous,back stabbing bread than my own people.FACT

[@kennyryan625]

Same here. Lived in the Spain and Britain and I found the same thing. The taxi driver who dropped me off at Shannon the day I emigrated warned me about that, and sadly he was right.

[@jazzhands7771]

What sort of bread is this? Potato bread? Or just a slice white loaf? 🍞

[@edwardduggan4878]

Sadly very true

[@alanobrien4020]

Bertie ahern was wise and cunning in how he handled the debacle of the brendan Smith affair ,he who wields the knife doesn't wear the crown ,and that dynamic allowed his leadership to unite a broken party

[@Kickback-dm7zt]

"I didn't give it to a politician and I didn't give it to the minister for finance... I gave it to a friend... A personal friend"... Who does that clown think he's trying to fool.

[@markcodd3296]

Nothing changes with FF....same old tricks

[@alanobrien4020]

Brian lenihan ironically didn't do anything wrong by ringing up the president to ask him not to dissolve the Dail, tragically his fall was down to denying the accusation ,how sad

[@johnadams20132013]

Olivia O Leary use to be in my Mums class in St Leo's in Carlow 5:23

[@stephenryan7855]

What episode is the bit where Bertie calls Mitchell a "waffler"

[@gadai4609]

That would be Episode 3 - United We Stand which you can find on this channel also

[@eugeneoreilly9356]

Shure I won it on a horse judge,all that lolly and I still have the betting docket to prove it.Lol.Oh and the tax clearance certificate from revenue.Its in the post judge Lol.

[@amandaorourke3036]

Any significance to the choice of music ???? From a much-loved German movie called "Good-bye Lenin".........

[@gadai4609]

Speaking as someone who mitched school a lot when that movie was being shown in my classes I only saw the ending,but isn't that film about someone whose family member is in a coma while the Berlin wall comes down?Maybe because that happened at the same time as this documentary?Idk I'm grasping at straws here,at least when Reeling in the Years plays "I will always love you" over Haugheys resignation,you get the message

[@alanobrien4020]

If politics is like a soap opera then Charlie was Jr ewing ,Bertie was the shadowing loyal Bobby, Albert was fr Ted and the rest were guns and doses

[@Black-White85]

Do you have episode one?

[@gadai4609]

I do,but the feckin thing has been deleted on me twice,first time was for a Tears for Fears song,I clipped it out and re-uploaded it,now it's been deleted for that same song but for a different section,have clipped out that section,it's re-uploading now should be up today,about 50 minutes into the video there'll be some audio blanks but rest assured I haven't cut out any of the narration/interviews,I've only trimmed out the bits where it's just the music playing

[@headtheballington]

@@gadai4609 Thanks for going to all the trouble.

[@stephenryan7855]

6:40 What does he mean by "cavernous depths"? I really wish they had spent more time on this.

[@gadai4609]

So do I,it'd be interesting to know more about him,if you haven't read his book you won't learn much,the unabridged audiobook is only six-ish hours, contrast that with the gigantic memoirs Garret Fitzgerald and Albert Reynolds wrote despite having comparably short terms in office
He skims over just about everything barring the Good Friday Agreement,the GFA takes up about an hour,whereas he leaps from the 02 election to the 07 election in a very short span of time
And as I'm sure you can imagine the tribunal takes up about five minutes of the book

[@stephenryan7855]

@@gadai4609 Yeah I am reading the book and he focuses on all the high points. I haven't gotten as far as the Mahon Tribunal but I have heard it's barely addressed. Can I ask do you have ideas on what he means by "cavernous depths"? My two theories are a genius/mastermind intellect hepurposely kept hidden or a really strong ruthless streak that he also managed to keep more or less hidden.

[@gadai4609]

@@stephenryan7855 closer to the latter I think ,like Haughey put it "the most devious,cunning of them all" he's made a career out of being underestimated, Dermot Morgan characterised him as just your typical Dub,in over his head, Fintan O'Toole said he'd cultivated an image of a man who only wanted enough money for a few pints and Sky Sports,hence why when the initial revelations about his finances came out,people gave him the benefit of the doubt,Eoghan Harris went out to defend him and the Sunday Independent still backed him in Election 07,Charlie McCreevy said he knew 10-15 percent of Bertie and that's more then most,I think Ahern was and is a secretive person,he had ambitions for high office from as early as Election 81 according to his friends and Celia Larkin yet none of the media or his colleagues picked up on that,contrast that with Haughey or Fitzgerald where senior figures in their party saw their ambition coming a mile away so much so that senior people in the party tried to hold them back,be it Cosgrave assigning Fitzgerald Foreign Affairs instead of Finance (perhaps using The same tactic used by Theresa May to keep Boris out of the country when she made him foreign sec ) or with Cosgraves Mongrel Fox speech,or be it Sean Lemass encouraging Jack Lynch,George Colley and Paddy Hillery to go for the leadership to stop Charlie or even De Valera who was quoted as saying Haughey would "wreck the party" Richard Nixon after he left office was told "the people never got a chance to know you" his response was "they don't need to" I think Ahern would have the same view,and I think he still tries to hide his ambitions,he's frequently said he thinks he's too old for the Arás (or at least he will be in 2025) ,I reckon he's still gonna give it a bash

[@stephenryan7855]

Interesting. I'd imagine he'd have to run as an Independent if he was to run seeing as he left Fianna Fail. There's no denying he was/is ambitious but do you think that he is a much more intelligent man than people think or he was just a great negotiator or a "cute hoor"? I mean he managed to stay in power for nearly eleven years. What do you think McCreevy meant by he only knows 25% of Bertie?

[@stephenryan7855]

What do you think on Aherns taking part in the video conference last night?

[@niallbyrne7562]

The lowest form of pondlife and a total embarrassment to ireland

[@alanobrien4020]

Berties dig out was overblown ,they who try and uquate him to haugheys persona are just unfair and hysterical

[@edwardduggan4878]

Thieves

[@dingleberryridesagain3606]

De Bert for President. ! Why ? Because we deserve it !!