Bertie Ahern now an artist, book money exempt from tax

bernardo mac · 06-01-2010 11:18PM

Must be a joke.The book was written for him by Richard Aldous.Bertie can hardly talk coherently .Aldous certainly had his work cut out translating Bertie babble into intelligible English.Fianna Fail corruption is more widespread than I thought.Is there any area of Irish life untainted?:eek:

mirror mirror · 06-01-2010 11:26PM

if he couldnt remember how ''that money '' came to be in his bank a/c,how did he remember enough of everything else to write a book

06-01-2010 11:31PM

This is an absolute disgrace. Why the hell should wealthy people like him not pay tax on his earnings from writing a book. Promoting artistic development is complete bull****. The are earning money it should be taxed simple as. I'd prefer not to pay tax but I do. But it's the government's disgrace and the fact that they implement it, I wish them a horrible professional and personal (somewhat) future.

TriciaDelicia · 06-01-2010 11:42PM

According to the news on 104 Bertie has €70,000 in an account to pay this tax.(The usual hand-in-jar backpeddle?)

Mossy Monk · 06-01-2010 11:43PM

The man is a cunt

bonerm · 06-01-2010 11:46PM

Mossy Monk wrote: »

The man is a cunt

They could have saved a lot of time and paper by making this his biography.

dolliemix · 06-01-2010 11:54PM

seven-iron wrote: »

I dont know why people are referring to the people who granted it as morons. They just follow the legislation which sets out the rules and criterian for the tax exemption. Doing their job.

Similarly, gardai follow the laws when they carry out their job. They dont have to be smart to do it.

I don't get the gardaí analogy

But, you know, it would just be fuppin brilliant if somebody stood up to that crook at some stage.

Its so wrong that he has this massive state pension. Wasted loads of tax-payers money by lying and being so frickin vague in all the tribunals. There was millions of euro wasted on this man.

He's exploiting the system and his status again.

We should really start up another thread called 'what's the next genius idea that Bertie Ahern will come up with to make taxpayers pay for his lifestyle?"

bernardo mac · 07-01-2010 02:00AM

Mossy Monk wrote: »

The man is a cunt

He's also a sham.I bet that his so called success in the peace negotiations was basically the work of government officials.Bertie's one of those opportunistic strikers who claims the credit even if the ball was over the line anyway when he stuck out his FF foot .His powers of concentration and stamina are naturally great ,and need to be, because he is thick, but he possesses that native cunning, necessary for survival.;)

starbelgrade · 07-01-2010 02:48AM

Deleted User wrote: »

Promoting artistic development is complete bull****.

Yes, art is pointless. Let's burn all the books.

The_Minister · 07-01-2010 03:17AM

Letter i the Times about it tomorrow

del88 · 07-01-2010 03:20AM

Mossy Monk wrote: »

The man is a cunt

thats a terible thing to say........a **** is usefull

kumate_champ07 · 07-01-2010 03:30AM

del88 wrote: »

thats a terible thing to say........a **** is usefull

not if its rotten

cambridge7 · 07-01-2010 12:25PM

Shoot the c*** for crimes against our country. And while they are at it shoot that other C*** Brian Lenihan the money saved by the HSE could be spent on worthy causes like our auld dears that they deserve for the hard work that they have done for our little island.:D

neil_hosey · 07-01-2010 01:00PM

Ickle Magoo wrote: »

http://www.artscouncil.ie/en/intro/about_us.aspx

How the fvck do they have funding when we dont even have salt for the fvcking roads?

kumate_champ07 · 07-01-2010 01:10PM

neil_hosey wrote: »

How the fvck do they have funding when we dont even have salt for the fvcking roads?

we have funding for salt but there are also other countries in europe with an increased need for it at this time so supplies are low, I'm not sure if 'table salt' would get the job done as the grains/crystals are too small

neil_hosey · 07-01-2010 06:39PM

kumate_champ07 wrote: »

we have funding for salt but there are also other countries in europe with an increased need for it at this time so supplies are low, I'm not sure if 'table salt' would get the job done as the grains/crystals are too small

oh, i thought i heard on the news the reason the week before new years wasnt gritted was because they ran out of funding for 2009 so had to wait till the new year to buy more salt/grit

kincsem · 07-01-2010 06:59PM

We are the plebs

Ahern will now take home a hefty €310,000 -- €43,000 more than Gordon Brown, who leads a country of 60 million people, and €20,000 more than US president George W Bush.
"I'm glad I don't own Chequers and I don't have No. 10 ... I don't have the Elysee Palace -- if you want to build those in, then you know what the figures would be."

kumate_champ07 · 07-01-2010 07:12PM

neil_hosey wrote: »

oh, i thought i heard on the news the reason the week before new years wasnt gritted was because they ran out of funding for 2009 so had to wait till the new year to buy more salt/grit

I dont ever recall seeing prolonged weather like this before so their stocks wouldnt have been enough anyway.

Art is already underfunded as it is, art like sport covers alot of disciplines and keeps kids off the street.

ctrl-alt-delete · 07-01-2010 07:32PM

He is having a good time of late, this will be nice outcome for him,

and recently Celia named her new baby girl after him,

Irish romance novelist Cecelia Ahern has given birth to a baby girl.

The daughter of former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and the baby Robin, who weighed in at 6lbs, were both said to be doing well at the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin.

BBC

Bertie Ahern now an artist, book money exempt from tax

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