Bertie wins €10,000

Dave!

Jammy bastid !

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/lotto-luck-for-bertie-with-euro10000-win-2085341.html

Lotto luck for Bertie with €10,000 win



FORMER Taoiseach Bertie Ahern – who once famously claimed to have won thousands of pounds on horse racing – has now scooped €10,000 in a local lotto draw.

Mr Ahern, who won the prize after reportedly buying a €2 ticket, was the lucky winner of a recent rollover jackpot in a draw for a soccer club on Dublin's northside.

The draw was made in the Beaumont House pub on the northside – a premise closely associated with the three-time Taoiseach.

It is understood Mr Ahern won the rollover jackpot in a draw for a soccer club in Whitehall.

However, he was not believed to be in the Beaumont House when his name was picked out over the weekend.

The pub is one of Mr Ahern's favourite haunts and was where he received his controversial £16,500 "dig out" from friends in 1994. One of his friends to give him money was Dermot Carew, owner of the Beaumont House.

Staff at the pub refused to comment last night but local sources said that Mr Ahern always bought tickets for local draws and was surprised to hear he had won thousands of euro.

"I don't think he was there at all at the time the draw was made," a source close to Mr Ahern said.

"Sure, he'd always be buying tickets to draws and stuff like that. I think it was a rollover for a soccer club around Whitehall."

During hearings at the Mahon Tribunal in 2008, Mr Ahern claimed that controversial lodgements he made to his accounts were in sterling – and he claimed he won some of the money betting on horses.

arybvtcw0eolkf

He needs it, the poor bollix.

ejmaztec

He probably found the Ryanair passenger and pulled it out of his arse. The rest is lies.

Sean Quagmire

Man do I hate that fucker

shqipshume

He has got to be the devil :mad:playing lotto hand it over you miserable git :mad: pay it in to the fund to pay back all you milked from country already.:mad:


Congratulations

shqipshume

Frank Old-fashioned Species wrote: »

He needs it, the poor bollix.

Poor???? lol :eek:

Fratton Fred

Is it is used notes of mixed currencies by any chance?

SEPT 23 1989

where will he lodge the money?

realmadrid

wondering does he have to pay tax on the winnings?!

Rabies

/waits for usual moaners

Dave!

Rabies wrote: »

/waits for usual moaners

No need to wait bud

Fizman

I'm delighted for the pr1ck.

Elenxor

Good things happen to good people?

AnonoBoy

Deadly, maybe I'll finally get that tenner he owes me.

Rabies

Dave! wrote: »

No need to wait bud

True.
One before me and I moaned about the moaners

Sometimes the AH range of topics gets smaller and smaller.

stepbar

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

where will he lodge the money?

In rocco and jay's account... They'll never ask where the money came from...

Wazdakka

Fair play.. He won.

What's' the issue here?


Why do so many boards posters use any mention what so ever of a public figure that they don't like as a vehicle to rant about them?

And it's rarely even original rants.. It's all the same crap over and over and over.

Fratton Fred

What's the chances this football club in Whitehall will now have planning permission approved for a new ground, in an area it shouldn't be and that it can't afford, but Anglo Irish will lend them the money anyway?

Biggins

Rabies wrote: »

/waits for usual moaners

I think he is a lovely man and we should all leave him something in our wills.
He's from a great organisation and is deserving of all his pensions.
We should all leave him alone to make more honest money.

O' crap. I got my dates wrong - thought it was the first of April.

mike65

Why isn't there a "Hit Bertie" flash game website?

Biggins

mike65 wrote: »

Why isn't there a "Hit Bertie" flash game website?

http://www.bertiethepirate.co.uk/contactus.aspx

stepbar

Wazdakka wrote: »

Why do so many boards posters use any mention what so ever of a public figure that they don't like as a vehicle to rant about them?

Because it's Bertie and Bertie is a bollox.

IvySlayer

Wazdakka wrote: »

Fair play.. He won.

What's' the issue here?


Why do so many boards posters use any mention what so ever of a public figure that they don't like as a vehicle to rant about them?

And it's rarely even original rants.. It's all the same crap over and over and over.

For thanks.

I hate Bono - POTD

I hate Biffo - POTD

Bertie is a scumbag - POTD

I don't hate Bono, nor do I hate politicians, I don't like the way the country is presently run, and yes Biffo and Bertie are to blame, but they were voted (at least Cowen by his party) to Taoiseach.

Fair play to Bertie though.

Hagar

In fairness he must get put on the spot to support every raffle/collection/society etc in every pub he goes into. He can't say no and if the ticket wins he's a < insert expletive here >.

Diabhal Beag

Bertie is a lucky ****er. Don't hate him as much as other Boardsies though by the looks of it

Fizman

Wazdakka wrote: »

Fair play.. He won.

What's' the issue here?


Why do so many boards posters use any mention what so ever of a public figure that they don't like as a vehicle to rant about them?

And it's rarely even original rants.. It's all the same crap over and over and over.

Eh? Where's your pacman smiley??

This is Bertie. He's fingered each and every one of us and didn't even give us a heads up or use any lube.

I bet he hasn't even washed his finger since.

opinion guy

69 wrote: »

In fairness he must get put on the spot to support every raffle/collection/society etc in every pub he goes into. He can't say no and if the ticket wins he's a < insert expletive here >.

Yeah I can see that all right. Seems like the classy thing to do, if you were Bertie that is, would be to gift the 10,000 back to the soccer club. No ?

Hagar

He should give it to the State, he probably put the original ticket down as a business expense. :pac:

Pot Noodle =

Drawn in his mates Pub something dodgy there

Stark

Why do good things always happen to bad people?

super_furry

I dislike Bertie Ahern and much of what he stands for, but you can’t really have a go at him for being lucky. No-one supports or buys local club lotto tickets to make money, they do so to support the cause.

CreepingDeath

Pot wrote:

Drawn in his mates Pub something dodgy there

+1

Gambling is a classic way to launder money.
Ask a helpful bar owner to rig the lotto, you give them €10,000 and suddenly win that €10,000 back in clean accountable money.

IrishManSaipan

Who is the owner of the boozer?

Biggins

IrishManSaipan wrote: »

Who is the owner of the boozer?

Himmm good question. No idea but here is the bar: http://www.dublinpubscene.com/thepubs/beaumonthouse.html

- Large and busy suburban pub, often frequented by nurses, DCU students and Bertie. Has had the reputation of the dearest pint on the northside for a long time and the recent (pre 2004) hike to 4euro for a Guinness maintains the trend. Excellent food service, but overall thumbs down for the prices this far from the city centre.
Submitted by John Keegan, Beaumont

billymitchell

woohoo!!
Bertie for President

IvyTheTerrible

Rich fecker gets richer?

Meh. Happens all the time.

She Devil

Delighted for him, fair is fair, he contributed to the cause, and won!

Biggins

billymitchell wrote: »

woohoo!!
Bertie for President

I wonder will he suddenly have sorted his LONG ongoing tax affairs by that election opening up! :rolleyes:

skelliser

super_furry wrote: »

I dislike Bertie Ahern and much of what he stands for, but you can’t really have a go at him for being lucky. No-one supports or buys local club lotto tickets to make money, they do so to support the cause.

LUCKY! *COUGH* BOLLOX *COUGH*
The pub is owned by this guy

One of Bertie Ahern's dig-out pals handed him IR£16,500 in cash as he was having a quiet midweek pint in their local pub.

Publican Dermot Carew had gathered the cash and put it into a safe at his Beaumont House pub, before handing it to Mr Ahern when he called in on his own. The Mahon Tribunal yesterday heard how the then-Finance Minister put the folder stuffed with cash on the seat beside him and covered it with his coat while he was at the pub for a drink.

Mr Carew told the tribunal yesterday about Mr Ahern's second dig-out, describing the sum as "a few pound". He said a whip around was proposed over a couple of pints between himself, Barry English and Joe Burke in September 1994.

He said Mr Ahern was living in a flat above his constituency office in St Luke's and the money was supposed to be put towards buying a house.

Repayment

Mr Carew said that Mr Ahern was amazed by the gesture, took the money, and sometimes brought up the subject of repayment over the coming years.

Mr Carew described how he went to the safe at his pub and produced the folder of cash for Mr Ahern which he said had been gathered in different amounts over a week.

"I said to him, 'Bert, the boys and myself want you to have this, a few pound towards a house'," Mr Carew told the tribunal. He (Mr Ahern) said 'No,' I won't use the word he used and I said to him, 'the boys won't take it back, no feckin' way'," Mr Carew added.

Mr Ahern, he said, put the folder full of cash on the seat beside him and covered it with his coat. The fact that Bertie Ahern had no home of his own was felt by his friends to be damaging to him and his career. But Mr Carew told the tribunal he did not know that Mr Ahern had IR£50,000 in cash savings, or that he had got IR£22,500 from other friends in December 1993. He also denied knowledge that Mr Ahern had IR£20,000 in the Irish Permanent Building Society. Mr Carew said: "I said it to Bert a few times that he should get a feckin' house, and he said that he was in the process of saving for it. We decided to throw in a few quid each."

He added that when Mr Ahern accepted, on condition that it was a loan, he (Mr Carew) was just happy that he took the money. He said Mr Ahern offered to repay the money on numerous occasions. "He said something like, 'Dermot, I must fix up that few quid with you', but I told him I didn't want it."

The tribunal is investigating a lodgment of IR£24,838.49 by Mr Ahern. It has said previously it does not equate with Mr Ahern's explanation of it being this second dig-out loan plus around £8,000 sterling from Manchester businessmen. But as the tribunal heard again that it does correspond to an exchange rate for £25,000 sterling, Mr Ahern said he never made this lodgment.

Mr Carew said his portion of the loan was paid back last year. He got a phone call from St Luke's to say that a cheque was waiting for him. He had already decided to give the money to charity and had chosen CARI, of which Miriam Ahern is patron.

Replying to Judge Mary Faherty, Mr Carew said he hadn't a clue why he phoned publican Charlie Chawke about the repaid cheques going to charity. "It was a spur of the moment thing. Charlie was a friend for years." He said he knew Mr Chawke was not part of that second dig-out group.

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/the-day-a-man-handed-ahern--pound16500-in-a-dublin-pub-1245504.html

Biggins

Strange, very strange...

Liam Byrne

Is this story true, or is it just the latest version of what he told some tribunal ?

And if it is, I'd nearly lay odds that he put the €2 down as a business expense.

ejmaztec

billymitchell wrote: »

woohoo!!
Bertie for President

Does that mean that there's a country on the planet that'll allow him to stand, or are we talking alternate universes here?

...and being the President of that broken-off Antarctican ice-shelf doesn't count.

Wazdakka

Fizman wrote: »

Eh? Where's your pacman smiley??

In My Sig

:pac:. . . . . . . .

stovelid

Shite pub. Didn't know Bertie drank there.

DrumSteve

"eh...eh...ehhhh... i just won it in a raffle."

Biggins

CreepingDeath wrote: »

+1

Gambling is a classic way to launder money.
Ask a helpful bar owner to rig the lotto, you give them €10,000 and suddenly win that €10,000 back in clean accountable money.

Good job horse racing can't be fixed then.
That reminds me...

aDeener

Biggins wrote: »

Strange, very strange...

ffs :rolleyes:, whats strange about someone winning the lotto? bertie had the same chance as anyone else of winning it, and got lucky. get over it

Biggins

aDeener wrote: »

ffs :rolleyes:, whats strange about someone winning the lotto? bertie had the same chance as anyone else of winning it, and got lucky. get over it

Have you read the preceding posts, who was involved, etc prior to my short comment?

Teddy Chips

CreepingDeath wrote: »

+1

Gambling is a classic way to launder money.
Ask a helpful bar owner to rig the lotto, you give them €10,000 and suddenly win that €10,000 back in clean accountable money.

what exactly are you trying to infer?

Biggins

Teddy Chips wrote: »

what exactly are you trying to infer?

New to the boards are we?
Its obvious to some of us what is being brought up.

IrishManSaipan

He should be able to afford to open a bank account now, what with his "winnings" and the proceeds from de buke.