# garret-fitzgerald - Friday 6 September, 2019
The Zimbabwe leader was viewed as a pariah by the West for decades. Things were different in 1983.
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# garret-fitzgerald - Saturday 29 December, 2018
Ireland had built up a valuable beef export partnership with Libya.
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The frank assessment came in meeting between the pair in The Hague in 1986.
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# garret-fitzgerald - Saturday 31 December, 2016
William Long, from Essex, wrote to the then Taoiseach with his plans for Irish trade.
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# garret-fitzgerald - Friday 30 December, 2016
“I don’t like the way Charlie is doing it”.
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# garret-fitzgerald - Friday 1 January, 2016
Talk about tarring us all with the same brush.
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# garret-fitzgerald - Thursday 31 December, 2015
The then Taoiseach even reached out to his nemesis Charles Haughey in an attempt to stymie Gerry Adams’ party.
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# garret-fitzgerald - Wednesday 30 December, 2015
Garret Fitzgerald got quite a bit when he signed the Anglo-Irish agreement.
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Mrs Thatcher was not a fan of Ministers for Foreign Affairs.
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The government of the time was not one bit happy at the thought of sex shops coming to these shores either.
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# garret-fitzgerald - Sunday 4 January, 2015
“We don’t watch TV anymore, we put the put the butter on the table and look at it.”
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# garret-fitzgerald - Friday 2 January, 2015
She said she wanted RTÉ to ‘stop being mean’ to a pirate radio station.
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# garret-fitzgerald - Tuesday 30 December, 2014
Taoiseach Garret Fitzgerald said the Government were not trying to be “spoil-sports”.
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*If he’s re-elected.
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# garret-fitzgerald - Saturday 27 December, 2014
The PM’s comments have been revealed in newly released state documents.
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State papers reveal how Alan Dukes warned his cabinet colleagues of the need to cut spending.
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# garret-fitzgerald - Wednesday 21 May, 2014
The southern province’s chief also insists ‘it was never policy’ to recruit an entirely Irish coaching ticket.
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# garret-fitzgerald - Tuesday 11 March, 2014
He is the man who helped Fine Gael become the largest party in the State but his involvement with the Rehab Group has caused controversy in recent weeks. Who is Frank Flannery? Let TheJournal.ie explain all.
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# garret-fitzgerald - Friday 28 February, 2014
Everyone else? Not so much…
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# garret-fitzgerald - Tuesday 11 February, 2014
The Munster CEO suggested that ‘common sense’ would make Anthony Foley the favourite to replace Rob Penney.
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# garret-fitzgerald - Sunday 19 January, 2014
Sutherland and FitzGerland had a close working relationship, with the former Taoieach appointing the barrister Ireland’s Attorney General when he took office in 1981.
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# garret-fitzgerald - Friday 3 January, 2014
The plan was revealed by British state papers released under the 30 year rule.
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# garret-fitzgerald - Friday 27 December, 2013
With the gardaí in crisis after the retirement of its two most senior officers over the phone tapping scandal, one former officer had some advice for Garret FitzGerald.
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Using first-hand materials gathered from the National Archives, we take a look at what happened before and after the contentious vote in 1983.
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# garret-fitzgerald - Sunday 30 June, 2013
In today’s poll-driven political culture we sometimes forget that to fail sometimes, you at least have to try. While Garret Fitzgerald did have failures, he also had the courage to do what he thought was right, writes David McCann.
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# garret-fitzgerald - Saturday 13 April, 2013
A Wikileaks cable reveals that Garret FitzGerald asked the United States not to oppose any British reassignment of troops.
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# garret-fitzgerald - Thursday 11 April, 2013
In a wire from the US Embassy in Ireland, an aid to the ambassador said Ireland believes that ‘Godless’ communists are in league with Satan.
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# garret-fitzgerald - Tuesday 9 April, 2013
Assassination attempts, the Hunger Strikes, and historic agreements were just some of the events involving Britain and Ireland that took place during the Iron Lady’s 11 years as Prime Minister.
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# garret-fitzgerald - Monday 8 April, 2013
Britain’s first female prime minister died following a stroke this morning.
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# garret-fitzgerald - Sunday 12 August, 2012
University of Ulster politics academic David McCann recalls the events of 1982 – and says we’ve never seen such a politically-charged atmosphere in this country since that turbulent year.
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# garret-fitzgerald - Friday 3 August, 2012
Payments to former Taoisigh for secretarial allowances continued until March – despite Enda Kenny telling the Dáil they would end in January, TheJournal.ie can reveal.
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# garret-fitzgerald - Sunday 29 July, 2012
Leaders in the tourism sector highlighted paths for potential growth in the sector at the Garret FitzGerald Summer School in Killarney.
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# garret-fitzgerald - Monday 28 May, 2012
Logbooks released by a UCD-funded website detail calls placed to Áras an Uactaráin by Fianna Fáil members in a controversial move that had consequences for the party years later.
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# garret-fitzgerald - Wednesday 2 May, 2012
The Kiwi has been handed a two-year deal by the province who say that Anthony Foley will continue as forwards coach next season.
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# garret-fitzgerald - Wednesday 21 March, 2012
Enda Kenny met with congressional leaders and presented President Obama with a bowl of shamrock as his US trip drew to a close.
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# garret-fitzgerald - Saturday 31 December, 2011
From Garret FitzGerald to Steve Jobs, we take a look at some of the people from politics, entertainment and sport who died this year.
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# garret-fitzgerald - Friday 30 December, 2011
Gaddafi’s intervention in the hunger strikes, Thatcher’s concessions and an advisor to Charlie Haughey who wasn’t best pleased with the state broadcaster. All revealed today…
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# garret-fitzgerald - Wednesday 5 October, 2011
Details provided to Wicklow TD Anne Ferris show that the ‘Teflon Taoiseach’ has claimed over €10,000 in phone expenses alone.
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# garret-fitzgerald - Wednesday 25 May, 2011
The FitzGeralds bought the house for £4,250 in 1959. It’s expected to fetch €1.3 million at auction tomorrow.
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# garret-fitzgerald - Monday 23 May, 2011
The bailout, Northern Ireland, the Queen’s visit, the Republic’s role in the world, and golf were among the topics discussed by president Barack Obama and Taoiseach Enda Kenny at Farmleigh house this morning.
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