Bertie Ahern Washington DC April 2008

[mjakes20]

You know, the Irish - American ally is strong and great. America has always been so loyal to us, taking us in during painful British rule. I may not agree with Bertie's choices in government, but he has made good terms abroad, and he did well here too.

[mirwin931]

He said peace in Ireland, what does that mean? Northern ireland I think he meant to say.

[ben7368]

@mirwin931 Ireland/Nothern Ireland, same thing.

[SeanOBriain]

@mirwin931 No, he meant to say Ireland. With all of it's 32 counties.

[RYANAIR815]

Oh my god they cant even pronounce, or even prepare the former taoiseachs name in front of the whole world correctly. God help them! Berty A-Herrrrnnnnn.

[deco9987]

Haha, Pelosi mispronounced both Ahern's name and the name of the country... (its Ire-land, not I-R-Land

[breda83]

@deco9987 grow up mick

[UnfortunatePenguin]

i wonder if he told them in his speech that the reason he was resigning was because we found out how corrupt he was and that he was getting out while he still could, because i doubt that they would have given him a standing ovation, for 11 years of corruption, would they?

[corkery1984]

Don't think hed be happy to be called excellency

[GirlWithGrin]

A-hern, lol. It's a flowing word honey. AAAAAhern.

[seanpconroy]

Annoying how she had to say Prime Minister after Taoiseach.

[TheMAProductions]

It would be nice if they could pronounce his name

[ciananal]

all these leftist socialists malcontets can piss off. if your kind were running the country we'd be in a worse mess than we're in now.. bearing in mind that joe higgins held up soviet russia as a shining example to the dail. that worked out well.. and how much respect would we lose for the government if they kicked to touch, called a general election and handed the problems to the opposition.. particularly labour who have'nt come up with one credible solution. to anything.

[ProinsiasOCaoilean]

Nancy Pelosi must have been sick after this introduction on finding out about what a corrupt rat Ahern and his Fianna Fail cronies were. Ahern stood there like a man of valour with no mention of his conflicting personal finances.

[neiljen08]

well said

[jarsonist]

Dose, dese, dat! Not many politicians make GWB look like an intellectual giant! This thief makes him look like Thomas Jefferson.

[davidoffon]

Cad is ainm Prick?

[rizla0071]

well done thief, ya made ireland proud. you should be shot you greedy ah..ah...ah...ah...bastard.

[McTuffel]

I have the high privilege and distinct honour of presenting to you; his excellency; Bertie A-Hole, sorry, Bertie A-Hern.

Well the former referal would have been quite appropriate also!

[Tonyo1221]

Funny . . . . but the country has gone down the pisser since he left. And he wasnt corrupt. It was the lawyers, judges and partisan media who made millions selling newspapers and investigating his €5000 and €7000 donations 15 and 17 years before he ever became Taoiseach who are the real crooks.

[neiljen08]

get a grip

[urgaeilge]

he was corrupt but so fuck i liked him! he does sound wrong speaking Irish though at least he knew the plural for agat tho!

[WalterSobchak1985]

I hope Fianna Fail get in again at the next election, I just love being ridden roughshod by gombeen men! Slieveenism and corruption all the way! The Irish really deserve their elected representatives, "suire he's a crooked hoor but sure he's one of the lads begorrah!" We don't mind being screwed nowadays so long as the person sitting in the big chair doesn't have a english accent!

[1995kennedy]

bertie woohooo

wish u were back :-(

[Irishhero32]

Bring Bertie Back!!!!!!!!!

[shanehennessyguitar]

I second that!

[jamesyodLK08]

I concur !!! BIFFO out

[CalatilySisters]

fuck that, i'm just happy a socialist beat the fianna fail member to the dublin euro seat, away with the fine/fianna trad stoneage policies

[KineticRic]

I really dont know much about Bertie's politics.

But he's right about America and Ireland needing to have closer relations from now on.

[davidian2037]

a likeable fella, if only he told the truth he wouldnt be tarred with the same brush as charles haughey, wasted a lot of taxpayers money when all he had to do was own up....

[jobo00019]

good ole Bertie...i hate how she pronounded Ahern!

[MatIrish]

she pronounced ahern wrong

[BigDirtyApe]

muppit

[Vertsk8er419]

Mignifigance.

[warmwollenmittens]

thanks for uploading this, have you got also a clip of Bertie's speech yesterday where Ian Paisley saluted him also?