Paisley boost set to bolster Bertie

The people of Ireland will soon be voting on who is to be the next Government. With the Celtic tiger, the property boom making just mere bricks and mortar millionaires look on the bread line, to the new glass cage billionaires, with the Irish nation never having been in a better financial health, at least in modern times, the Taoiseach Bertie Ahern was red hot favourite for victory again.
The election is now too close to call, Bertie has been coming under severe pressure in recent weeks. Rumors of bribes and payments taken and now another personal scandal, using peace for political gain during the election campaign.
Ireland's Labour Party have claimed that Mr Ahern could be exploiting the North of Ireland peace process. Labour leader Pat Rabbitte and his party colleague Ruairi Quinn have both expressed concern about plans for Mr Ahern to address the House of Commons and House of Lords. And further noise is made about Bertie and Ian Paisley's planned Pow wow at the banks of the Boyne.
To Bertie's defence, the Rev Ian Paisley has dismissed such claims, he will not be boosting Bertie Ahern’s troubled election campaign at all, says the Rev Doctor.
As he prepared to be sworn in as the North's First Minister at Stormont tomorrow, the Democratic Unionist leader denied that Friday’s tour of the site of the Battle of the Boyne, was designed to boost Mr Ahern's image in the Irish General Election campaign.
“We are going to the Boyne – where better to meet than at the site of the Battle of the Boyne? Certainly he is not going to go over the Boyne to take us over and I don’t know if we are going to have to go down it to get over, but I don’t think it is going to be a battle. I must say in fairness to the Taoiseach, this did not happen overnight. I made a promise that I would do this. People are saying that I am giving him a leg up because he is down. That’s pretty unfair because this was arranged long before that. If he thinks it is a leg up, then let him think it but it is not so because we had it all set up long before this.”
The Taoiseach will attend tomorrow’s nomination of Mr Paisley and Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness as the North's First and Deputy First Ministers and the formation of the new power-sharing executive along with British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
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