Potatoes for Bertie Ahern

Art performance, artist Mark McGowan is to dress up as the An Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and crawl on his hands and knees, while attempting to pull 300 kilos of potatoes (in a large bulk aggregate bag attached to his leg by a piece of string), along the road for 4 miles, in Dublin, Ireland.

The intention is to show the people of Ireland the difficulties and struggles of being the Irish Leader, he has the weight of Ireland along with his own personal problems and this performance is an attempt to show everyone just how hard it is being Bertie Ahern.



The event starts in Ballymun at 11am on February wednesday 27th 2008 at the Old Swimming Pool, beside the shopping centre on Ballymun Main St and ends at Bertie Ahern's local, Fagans in Drumcondra just opposite where his clinic is. McGowan will present the potatoes as a gift/art piece for Bertie.

McGowan says, "I think people give Bertie Ahern a hard time and i for one believe him to be a wonderful man and a great leader of the Irish nation."