Bertie Parties Down in Kerry As Blind Are Hit by Welfare Cuts ; Ahern Misses Vital Dailvote Even Though Blind School Is Beside Constituency Office [Eire Region Edition 2]

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ON FRIDAY evening, as the Dail voted through cuts in payments to blind people, former taoiseach Bertie Ahern was nowhere to be seen in the Oireachtas. His absence surprised observers given that the State's only school for the visually impaired is in his Drumcondra heartland.

It had been expected that the man whose name is so closely associated with the area would be there to speak on behalf of St Joseph's School for the Visually Impaired. After all, it is located just yards from his constituency base, as is the National Council for the Blind of Ireland.

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Bertie Parties Down in Kerry As Blind Are Hit by Welfare Cuts ; Ahern Misses Vital Dailvote Even Though Blind School Is Beside Constituency Office [Eire Region Edition 2]

However, not only did Mr Ahern have nothing to say about the cuts but the Irish Mail on Sunday can reveal that as TDs were voting to take up to e5 a week from blind couples, Mr Ahern was getting ready for a lavish Christmas night out with his staff in a ...

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