Bertie Ahern: The Man Who Blew the Boom: Power & Money (49 page)

Bertie Ahern after he was first elected to the Dáil in 1977. (©
RTÉ
Stills Library
)

Bertie Ahern and Charles Haughey in All Hallows College after the funeral mass for Con Ahern, December 1980. (
Courtesy of Frank Millar, Irish Times
)

Leaflet from November 1982. George Colley died months later, and Tom Leonard won the seat in the resulting by-election. (
Leaflet supplied by Alan Kinsella
)

On the way into Leinster House, January 1983. (
Courtesy of Peter Thursfield, Irish Times
)

St George’s Church, Temple Street, Dublin, July 1983. (
Courtesy of Tom Lawlor, Irish Times
)

Ahern takes over as Lord Mayor of Dublin from Jim Tunney, July 1986. (
Courtesy of the Irish Times
)

Andrew Farrell near Gardiner Street polling booth, June 1989. (
Courtesy of Tony O’Shea
)

Ahern leads Fianna Fáil talks with the Labour Party after the November 1992 general election. Ruairí Quinn is facing Ahern. (
Courtesy of Frank Millar, Irish Times
)

Ahern with Joe Burke on the morning of budget day, January 1994. (
Courtesy of Matt Kavanagh, Irish Times
)

Ahern entering Government Buildings in June 1994, only hours after being told by Dick Spring that he was pulling out of the proposed coalition. (©
PA
Archive/Press Association Images
)

Ahern invites the media in to photograph him with his mother, Julia, then eighty-six, during the June 1997 general election campaign. (©
PA
Archive/Press Association Images
)

Ahern and Celia Larkin at the Dublin count, June 1997. His running-mate, Marian McGennis, is on his right. (©
PA
Archive/Press Association Images
)

Ahern leaving the Dublin count after the June 1997 general election. (©
PA
Archive/Press Association Images
)