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It has escaped scrutiny for its role during the banking collapse and our economic armageddon. It is the insider's new refuge.Perhaps Frank should look at the powerful "advisory committee" -- the guys who head up his NTMA "family". Did he know that it...
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Public Accounts Committee (PAC) will grill the Department of Sport this week on how it managed to spend €43m on master-planning a national sports campus that was never built.It will also question the department on a number of claims it made about the pet...
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File - In this Oct.17, 2011 file photo Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams, second from left waves at the end of the International Peace Conference in San Sebastian, northern Spain. The Basque daily Gara says the armed group ETA has issued a statement... View Photo »
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Perhaps they should have called in Ernst & Young.The only opposition has come from much-maligned city councillors whose constituents are now victims of an appalling service from Greyhound. The councillors, led by a long-time adversary of Bertie Ahern...
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Taoiseach Bertie Ahern yesterday described his appointment of the late Gerry Hickey in 1991 as his programme adviser as "one of the best decisions I ever made".Mr Ahern delivered the eulogy at Mr Hickey's packed funeral in St Fintan's Church, Sutton,...
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NUMBER of TDs should be reduced by more than half, to 70 or 80 instead of 166, former taoiseach Bertie Ahern has said. The former Fianna Fáil leader said a system of single-seat constituencies should be introduced and this would lead to better scrutiny...
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Representative of Covite, ETA victims association, Consuelo Ordonez (R) gives a book on the history of terrorism in the Basque Country to a member of the pro-dialogue Basque group Lokarri during a conference to promote a resolution in the Basque... View Photo »
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Taoiseach Bertie Ahern last night paid heartfelt tribute to a "wonderful, decent man", following the death of his long-time adviser, Gerry Hickey.Mr Hickey (67) passed away after fighting a brave three-year battle with cancer.He served as Programme...
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HICKEY, who has died, was a key adviser to former taoiseach Bertie Ahern throughout his period as leader of Fianna Fáil and as taoiseach. As programme manager in the taoiseach’s office between 1997 and 2008, Mr Hickey played an important role in...
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Patrick Bartholomew "Bertie" Ahern (Irish: Pádraig Parthalán Ó hEachthairn, born 12 September 1951) is an Irish politician who served as Taoiseach of Ireland from 26 June 1997 to 7 May 2008. Full Article
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