No fair deal for Bertie

Bertie Ahern acted like any other man in 1993. But the fallout from that time is skewing news values and obscuring his feats.

The determined media campaign against Taoiseach Bertie Ahern arising out of the Mahon Tribunal continues, despite the fact that it is still apparently garnering no appreciable public concern.

The citizens continue to be vastly uninterested in the happenings of some 17 years ago. In May, they went to the polls ...