Bertie

United We Stand (1x3)

Udgivelsesdato: Nov 17, 2008

In episode three Bertie Ahern is challenged on some of the theories relating to a 'good will loan' in 1994. And he talks about a gruelling week of negotiations culminating in the Good Friday Agreement. In December 1994 Bertie Ahern had confidently been expected to become Taoiseach. He was a heartbeat away from a vote to confirm him in the Dáil. But in the middle of the night, Ahern took a call from Labour leader Dick Spring informing him that a coalition deal was off. Though few outside Bertie Ahern’s inner circle knew it, the days before Spring’s call had also been momentous ones. At the weekend, a man called Michael Wall had apparently arrived in St Luke’s with a briefcase full of cash. Ahern had passed the cash onto Celia Larkin, who lodged it to an AIB account.