A thought occurred to me viewing the second of the Bertie programmes.

Its quite extraordinary how Fianna Fail has in effect been the vehicle for the personal ambition of at least three of its leaders. The founder De Valera seemed to be a man of profound intellectual arrogance and personal aggrandisement (witness the redirecting thousands of dollars collected for the party in US to personal use to found Irish Press publications). The consequences of Charlie Haughey’s naked power grab and all that flowed from it are obvious. Now we see exposed Bertie and the Drumcondra mafia who cared not a fig for FF except to use it to further the career of Bertie.

I will give the other three leaders the benefit of doubt.