Quote #9

'What they were up to in those days were kept for the future. I'm not sure I know how legal it was...but anyway...ha ha ha.' (March 15, 2005 - Visiting the Tipperary Hill Irish neighbourhood in Syracuse, New York)

More from Bertie Ahern

  1. 'To the people of Europe who are joining us today in the European Union I extend the hand of friendship...Today marks the triumph of your d…
  2. 'Throwing white elephants and red herrings at each other.' (a warning he used in the Dail once).
  3. 'We were always dead against the war.' (December 2003)
  4. Time reported him as warning his country against 'upsetting the apple tart' of his country's economic success.[2]
  5. 'We are not going to apologise for any small role we may have played in helping to remove a dictator who made his people suffer for 20 year…
  6. 'I never condemn wrongdoing in any area.' (22 February 2006 in the Dail)
  7. 'I've looked up every tree in north Dublin.' (speaking of his investigations into Ray Burke's past)
  8. 'I never condone wrongdoing in any area' (22 February 2006 in the Dail) (Ahern corrected his slip, above, during the same dialogue.[2])

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