If you wondered where Bertie Ahern was last weekend when he missed the inauguration well you’d be right in thinking like me that he was on a ‘Bertie-earner’.

He was in Shanghai at the Huatuo CEO forum speaking at a meeting also addressed by Bill Clinton and Rudi Giulliani. This is Bertie’s fourth trip to China this year. Heading east when the speaking work in the US dried up? Where nobody knows much about him? And few will hear what he has been up to. Who knows but he’s still earning by talking about the Prime Ministers role as CEO and the like.

His prior engagement clarified.