Bertie Ahern: The Man Who Blew the Boom: Power & Money (50 page)

Ray Burke (Minister for Foreign Affairs), Bertie Ahern and Tony Blair at the door of 10 Downing Street, London, July 1997. (©
PA
Archive/Press Association Images
)

Ahern enters the Fianna Fáil ard-fheis, November 1998. (
Courtesy of Frank Millar, Irish Times
)

Charlie McCreevy, Mary Harney and Bertie Ahern in February 2000 at a meeting of the social partners to conclude the Programme for Prosperity and Fairness. (
Courtesy of David Sleator, Irish Times
)

Ahern after giving evidence to the Moriarty Tribunal, June 2000. (
Courtesy of Frank Millar, Irish Times
)

Ahern and Charlie McCreevy during the 2002 general election. (
Courtesy of Matt Kavanagh, Irish Times
)

Ahern’s daughter Georgina, Royston Brady, Bertie Ahern and Joe Burke at the launch of a new ferry in Dublin Port, August 2003. (
Courtesy of Cyril Byrne, Irish Times
)

Ahern at the Galway Races, August 2006. (©
Matt Browne/Sportsfile
)

Paddy Duffy, whose association with Ahern goes back to the mid-1970s, photographed in 2005. (
Courtesy of Matt Kavanagh, Irish Times
)

Tim Collins, with Dominic Dillane behind him, Dublin Castle. (
Courtesy of David Sleator, Irish Times
)

David McKenna and Des Richardson in Washington for Ahern’s address to the
US
Congress, April 2008. (
Courtesy of David Sleator, Irish Times
)

The Rev. Ian Paisley and Bertie Ahern greet each other at the site of the Battle of the Boyne, May 2007. (
Courtesy of David Sleator, Irish Times
)

Bertie with Noel Ahern, Cyprian Brady and Maurice Ahern in St Luke’s, Drumcondra, in December 2010 on the night he announced that he would not be standing for election. (
Courtesy of Dara Mac Dónaill, Irish Times
)