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...bottle when he told the pro-life group that an abortion amendment "was an integral part of our program." Two governments later, his Fein Gael Party drafted a proposed amendment, only to have it rejected by coalition dissidents in favor of an alternative advanced by the Fianna Fáil opposition. All the while, the struggle between the pro-and antiabortion lobbies took on a strongly religious character. Groups of nuns distributed pro-life literature door to door, and village priests denounced the amendment's opponents in hellfire sermons that occasionally featured graphic descriptions of how abortions are performed...
Scandal rocks Fianna Fail...
...events was made public at the time. But last October, Peter Murtagh, a reporter for the Irish Times, talked to Tully, who had successfully appealed his transfer, and published details of the attempted coverup. That produced an anonymous tip that the police, on the orders of Haughey's Fianna Fail government, were tapping the telephones of journalists. Murtagh followed up the story and found that Doherty, in an effort to stem embarrassing reports about internal party squabbles, had placed bugs on the phones of two of Dublin's top political reporters. It was also discovered that Haughey...
These findings appeared in the Irish Times after the Haughey government had lost the general election to Garret FitzGerald's Fine Gael/Labor coalition. Both Doherty and MacSharry quit the Fianna Fail shadow cabinet, two senior police officers resigned, and the government started an investigation of its own. Though Haughey insisted he knows nothing of the shady doings, his political future suddenly seemed endangered...
...latest revelations generated pressure for Haughey to resign as Fianna Fail's leader last week. "The heat was so strong in there you could burn your hands on the flames," said one M.P. after a party meeting to discuss the scandal. But despite the growing rebellion in the ranks, Haughey has refused to quit. Said the Irish Times: "He is not to be dislodged by assaults that would shift normally tenacious men." In part, Haughey is able to hold on because of some old-fashioned political patronage. Says one Irish reporter: "Charlie has people everywhere. When the chips...