Word: garret
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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...
According to DiNovi, Weinstein is funny "all the time, except when he sleeps, which is a lot." Friends from Stuyvesant and Harvard agree that Weinstein doesn't simply turn on for an audience. "Anders made us all laugh constantly," says Stuyvesant classmate Garret Harris, now a senior at Syracuse University. "He is probably the most naturally funny person I know. Besides, who else can you think of who owns both a Batman long...
What's more, the current spate of bombings could hurt one of the most promising approaches to working out an eventual settlement in Ireland: the hopes of Garret FitzGerald, who became Prime Minister of the Republic of Ireland in June, to pave the way for eventual unification of Ulster and the republic. FitzGerald would like to see the establishment of an Anglo-Irish council, including Protestant and Catholic representatives from Ulster and members of the British and Irish parliaments, to promote better relations between Britain, Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic. This week FitzGerald is scheduled to meet with...
...historic and recent tensions in Northern Ireland. The more dramatic came from Maze Prison, where at week's end Irish Republican militants announced that they were giving up their seven-month campaign of fasting that has left ten dead since it began last March. In Dublin, Prime Minister Garret FitzGerald launched a bold initiative to change the constitution of the Irish Republic in ways that would make unification of the divided island more conceivable...
When he formed his government earlier this month, Prime Minister Garret FitzGerald was bitterly critical of the British government. Reason: Whitehall's unyielding approach to the members of the Irish Republican Army who were conducting hunger strikes in the Maze Prison near Belfast. But last week FitzGerald declared he was much more sympathetic to Whitehall's tactics. That turnabout led the London Times to editorialize: "There has been a remarkable improvement in relations between the British and the Irish governments over the past few days...