Taking the heat

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.