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When Ireland's Prime Minister Eamon de Valera was starting out in politics, a friend warned him: "You'll never get anywhere until you have your own newspaper." De Valera followed the advice, and in 1931 got control of the Irish Press. Next year he was elected Prime Minister. Under him, the Press spoke for "Dev's" Fianna Fáil Party, and circulation climbed until today it is 199,000, only 4,000 behind the Irish Independent, the country's biggest daily. But from the start, Dev had one trouble with the paper...
...rich Aga Khan got richer by selling his unbeaten Tulyar, winner of the Epsom Derby, the St. Leger and five other British stakes races, to the government-sponsored Irish National Stud for $700,000. The news instantly 1) gratified Irish horse breeders, 2) roused Laborite opponents of Premier Eamon de Valera to demand a parliamentary debate on the purchase, "in view of the already heavy burden on the taxpayers...
Convalescing from three eye operations performed in Holland, Eire's Prime Minister Eamon de Valera celebrated his 70th birthday in a Utrecht hospital. In addition to letters and presents, the Prime Minister received almond cakes in the shape of a 7 and an 0, and a cake (with green icing) in the shape of an unpartitioned Ireland. Invited to cut the cake, De Valera asked: "Why should it be up to me to partition it?" Of the hospital party he said: "Wasn't it a grand idea...
...Eamon McDonough would be doing more for the future of the country if he were to go to both the church pew and the election booth on election...
Prime Minister of Ireland Eamon de Valera, whose eyesight has been failing, flew to Utrecht for an operation by a Dutch specialist. His malady: glaucoma -a hardening of the eyeballs and deterioration of the retina...