Word: irishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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None of these 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...
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...
...Harvard men's and women's fencing teams both battled highly-touted Notre Dame last night and found the Fighting Irish's ratings weren't inflated, as the swordsmen from South Bend downed both squads convincingly last night...
...Irish downed the Crimson women 11-5 in the foil, the only weapon in women's inter-collegiate team competition. Captain Amy Jones and junior Vivi Fuchs each grabt two wins, while Jennifer Woodell got the other Harvard victory...
...Jack Warden), hopes the case will bring in some cash without much effort. The Archdiocese which runs the hospital where the accident took place seems willing to settle out of court and keep the doctors' names out of the papers. But Galvin, a crusader against the corruption of the Irish. Catholic world in which he lives, refuses to take the easy route. He rejects the offer and insists on taking the case to court, thus making the verdict of the court, whatever it may be, more than a judgement of the suit, but a decision that will condemn or save...