Former taoiseach Bertie Ahern has once again found himself falling victim to cyber-squatters, who have taken over his website.

The web page, bertieahernoffice.org, had been a repository for all of the keynote speeches that Ahern delivered on his extensive travels around the globe.

However, it now appears that Ahern's ownership of the site has lapsed and it has been taken over by ads for "naughty Irish wives", dating agencies and "nice girls" with short skirts and long legs.

Renewal of the website would cost just $4.95 (€4.14) a month, which would probably be eligible to be claimed back under Ahern's Houses of the Oireachtas expenses.

The former taoiseach, who has made a fortune as a professional speaker and also serves on a number of company boards, has been too busy to get the paperwork in order.

The Ahern office website had been used as a way of generating business for the ex-taoiseach's international speaking engagements and featured, as a taster, some of his finest orations.

In one speech delivered to the famous Oxford Union, the Fianna Fáil TD said that the "wise policy choices" of his party would lead the country back to wealth and that nobody "blew the boom".

Instead of those wise words, visitors are now met with a barrage of advertisements, for dozens of websites including some which are adult-only.

One of them, for a site called Affairsclub, reads: "Wives in Ireland: these local wives like to play around… with you? Join for free."

More mundane advertisements also feature, including ones for office supplies, free computer software and perhaps, most distressingly of all for the proud Dublin football fan, a website for Irish hotels, but only in Co Kerry.

It is not the first time Ahern, or some of his colleagues in Fianna Fáil, have fallen victim to cyber-squatters.

Nearly a decade ago, the website bertieahern.com openly featured hardcore pornography.

It was part of a package of sites including thetaoiseach.com, marymcaleesesucks.com and bertieahernsucks.com, which an unscrupulous businessman was trying to sell.

A major online auction took place with bidding moving in increments of $50,000-a-time, eventually reaching more than $1m, although whether any of the bids were genuine is not known.

A representative of the website said at the time: "There is no motive behind the sale of the name that we can see.

"Nor do we have any Irish connections. We are simply opportunistic capitalists – we hope to sell it to someone who has positive interests for the Irish people.

"However, we cannot discriminate about who should place a bid – this is on a first-come, first-served basis."

The sought-after address was eventually secured by the government and bounced visitors directly into the official Oireachtas website with not a hint of pornography on view.