Word: fianna
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According to a series of articles in The Irish Times, Flynn allegedly received and misappropriated a 1989 donation of 50,000 pounds intended for Flynn's political party, Fianna Fil. The donation came from London-based property developer Thomas Gilmartin...
...leaders of the small Labor party convinced Robinson to take their party's nomination. No politician from an opposition party had defeated a candidate from the ruling party, Fianna Fail, since...
Thanks to her tireless campaigning, a scandal which discredited the Fianna Fail candidate, Ireland's electoral system of proportional representation and a fundamental change in the Irish electorate, Robinson prevailed in the November election...
...wrote an essay saying that his ambition in life was to serve in the I.R.A. His parents were proud. By 14, he was frequently detained by police for running guns. By 16, he was old enough to be sent to prison, charged with weapons possession and membership in Fianna, the junior branch of the illegal I.R.A. He served eight years. Now McConville, 38, wears a tie, runs an antidrug program while toiling on a master's degree in computer science. He is still active in the republican movement, albeit in its nonviolent branch. An agreement, he says, was necessary even...
Ireland's Prime Minister Albert Reynolds resigned today following the withdrawal of a key political party from the coalition that kept him in power yesterday . He did not ask for a general election -- leaving his Fianna Fail party scrambling to find a new leader who commands the support of a parliamentary majority. Reynolds lost the backing of the Labour party over the appointment of a judge accused of delaying the extradition of a priest charged with child molestation in Northern Ireland. If a new prime minister satisfactory to Labour cannot be found, national elections would then be held, delaying...