is virtually uttering disbelief at the way events have turned bertie ahearn was the man who flew up from dublin to belfast on the morning of his mother's own funeral to try and clinch that agreement he put years of effort without any electoral reward in the south people weren't voting in the twenty six counties of violence on the basis of what was happening in the north bertie ahearn wasn't doing it for you know vainglorious reasons he wasn't even doing it for domestic political reasons he put a lot of effort into the peace process for the good of ireland as a whole and the middle of mcdonald very much the merging woman of irish politics if she is going to be a force to be reckoned with merriment on was the obvious successes you carry out and she's very very smart intellectually she's very very well at human politically she will leitch in fane i'm sure to greater success you've got a lot wish in vain of come from first of all in one thousand nine hundred seven the year prior to the good friday agreement she only had a single member of the oil aaron you know twenty years on the vo