Madam, - This year we have had a multitude of Berties: indignant Bertie, indigent Bertie, indulgent Bertie, incredulous Bertie, inscrutable Bertie, insolent Bertie and intemperate Bertie. How many more faces of Bertie shall be revealed in 2008 or will the real Bertie Ahern ever emerge from beneath all the expensive maquillage? - Yours, etc,
PATRICK O'BYRNE, Shandon Crescent, Phibsborough, Dublin 7.