Word: poblachta
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...children. Ireland's doctors opposed the bill and the Roman Catholic Church came out against it because it would mean state interference in private family concerns. Another opponent: Sean MacBride, Foreign Minister in the Costello cabinet and leader of Browne's own party, the Clann Na Poblachta (whose platform is mildly leftish). Denouncing both Costello and MacBride, Browne resigned. Last week Browne, running as an independent, was re-elected to his seat by a comfortable majority. MacBride and his party suffered heavy losses...
...Valera either." James Dillon might make up for that. Dillon, who used to say that Dev's agricultural policy was "no eggs, no poultry, no bacon, and damned little of anything else," became Costello's Minister for Agriculture. Arch-Nationalist Sean MacBride, whose Clann na Poblachta joined the coalition, became Minister for External Affairs...
...Better a Dev You Know. . ." In a sense, you might say, it was a private fight between young (43), clever, soft-spoken Sean MacBride, whose Clann na Poblachta (Republican Party) had successfully challenged the government in last fall's by-elections (TIME, Dec. 1), and old Dev himself. Young Sean, whose early life had been spent in the outlawed Irish Republican Army and whose father had been executed by the British, disavowed any trace of anti-Britishism, but he was vaguely against Dev's policy of keeping Eire in the British pound sterling zone...
...Clann na Poblachta (Republican Party), founded only a year ago, had dared to challenge Dev's Fianna Fail. In Dublin, Waterford and Tipperary Counties, Clann candidates cut heavily into the Fianna's 1944 majorities. "The political tide, if it has not yet turned," said the Irish Times, "most assuredly is turning...
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