As Bertie Ahern takes the heat in the Dail and media, three of his former colleagues who are not uninvolved in current controversies cope with the pressures in different ways: Pee Flynn is sitting tight in Brussels determined to brazen out the 11 months he has left as Commissioner; Ray Burke's absence from the Flood Tribunal is sometimes likened to the ghost at the banquet; and Charles Haughey has just returned from a two-week yachting holiday in the Carribean.