Bertie Ahern brands Fianna Fáil members 'useless'

Bertie Ahern

BERTIE AHERN will brand some members of his celebrated Fianna Fáil machine in Dublin Central as “useless” in a TV3 series, The Rise and Fall of Fianna Fáil, beginning next week.

The Irish Independent reports today that the former Fianna Fáil leader and Taoiseach says in the three-part series:

A lot of people [cumann members] had tea parties in the '70s and '80s and met to discuss the state of the world, including Ireland. But as far as building up the Fianna Fáil vote in these areas, they were useless.

Members of one Fianna Fáil cumann in Dublin’s north inner city in the 1970s were not Northsiders and were 'frightened of crossing the Liffey', Bertie Ahern says.

They were afraid to come into Seán MacDermott Street, to drive through it, never mind canvass it. So, quite frankly, they were a bunch of useless good-for-nothings.