FitzGerald Tells Americans: Stop Financing IRA – On This Day in 1974
In trying to limit one of the IRA’s biggest sources of finance and weapons, Garret FitzGerald appealed to Irish-Americans to ...
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The Indo Daily: November or March? Simon Harris’s high-stakes election headache
Fine Gael kingpin Garret FitzGerald asked colleagues: “Can we undissolve the Dáil?” Is Simon Harris likely to look to the past to help form an answer to the election headache that has formed ...
The Irish Times28d
Three lessons in leadership from the careers of the great rivals, FitzGerald and Haughey
Throughout the 1980s, two men dominated the Irish political landscape. Charles Haughey and Garret FitzGerald embodied and articulated very different visions of Ireland and its future.
The Irish Times29d
Which politicians have done most for Irish culture? As the general election approaches, it’s a question worth asking
and I have been chewing over the long-running rivalry between Charles Haughey and Garret FitzGerald, the two men who dominated Irish politics in the 1980s. Among other things, our discussion ...
TheJournal.ie1d
Historian During apartheid, the IRFU made the extraordinary decision to tour South Africa
Liam O’Callaghan looks at how the IRFU came in for criticism over its support of South Africa’s rugby team during the ...
Irish Examiner26d
Fine Gael chooses general election candidates in Dublin Fingal West and Donegal
John Boland – a former Fine Gael cabinet minister who served under former taoiseach Garret Fitzgerald. Fine Gael have now selected 31 candidates across 19 constituencies, with more due to be ...
Irish Examiner26d
Fergus Finlay: I’ve seen plenty of angry and bitter campaigns — Harris brings joy
Earlier still, and well before your time, there was the referendum on abortion — an abject act of pandering by Charles Haughey and cowardice by Garret Fitzgerald — that inserted the infamous ...
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€185,000 in funding in Tipperary for vehicles for mobility
Senator Garret Ahearn has welcomed €185,000 for mobility vehicles in Tipperary. The funding will be offered through Minister ...
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Judge Patrick Durcan retires from District Court
He served as a Fine Gael senator from 1982 to 1987, after nomination by then Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald. He was appointed to the bench in November 2011.
Medscape28d
Perspective on the Vioxx Recall
In a second essay, the University of Pennsylvania's Garret FitzGerald explains that the COX-2 enzyme is the main source of prostaglandin I 2, which inhibits platelet aggregation and causes ...