Hey Bertie,
I would just like to take this opportunity to thank you for your time and effort as Taoiseach of our great country.
I have already written here about some of your achievements (and lack of them!), but for sure, you got the most important things right. I firmly believe that you gave it your best through all kinds of difficult circumstances over the years, and steered the ship in a very steady fashion. It must be the most lonely job in the world to be Prime Minister of any country if you want to be good at it. Sometimes you have to make unpopular decisions for which you can isolate yourself as a human being, but in the end your vision made it all work out. I know there are those who would say that this, that and the other went wrong, but there was a lot more that went right than wrong for sure, given the fact that you are a human being and not a machine.
I wish you well in your retirement as Taoiseach, even though I know you have a lot to give to society yet in one way or another. Take it easy for a while and come down here to us at Charlie´s Bar and have a pint or three with us. You truly are an extraordinary, ordinary man. Enjoy a chara.
Mise le meas
Ó Murchú
P.S.: If anyone can get this e-mail to Bertie in person, please do so.
I have sent this message on to the email I found on the Taoiseach´s office´s website… maybe we´ll see him at Charlie´s soon!
Was just wondering Bertie – any chance you would cross the pond for a few months and take over from that clown Bush until the elections please? It’s only a few months, ah go on go on go on! You will you will you will! I know you can’t call him a clown in your position, but I can!!!