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President Michael D Higgins had led the tributes to the late Dr Brian Hillery, Miltown Malbay, who has died,
President Leads Tributes to Dr Brian Hillery
January 21, 2021
President Michael D Higgins has led the tributes to former Fianna Fáil TD and Senator Brian Dr Hillery who has died aged 83 after a short illness.
In a glowing tribute, President Higgins said the news of the death of Brian Hillery will have been received with great sadness by all those with an interest in politics and economics, by those who encountered him in a long life of public service, and particularly by his colleagues in the Fianna Fáil Party.
Leaked phone calls held up talks between John Major and John Bruton Peace talks: PM told that taoiseach was using conversations for his own political ends
Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 00:02 Brian Hutton
Taoiseach John Bruton and British prime minister John Major at Downing Street on November 28th, 1995. Photograph: Sean Dempsey/Pool/Reuters
Former British prime minister John Major was “reluctant” to talk to then taoiseach John Bruton on the phone because their private conversations were always leaked, according to newly declassified files.
Senior British diplomats warned Bruton’s highest-ranking civil servant a number of times of Major’s “irritation” over the content of their confidential calls making its way into the newspapers.
Looking at Fine Gael from inside and out Independent.ie 27/12/2020 Mary O Rourke
It s harvest time, isn t it, for readers who want to learn more about Fine Gael. This autumn we had two books dealing with this topic: Shane Ross s In Bed with the Blueshirts and Saving the State by Stephen Collins and Ciara Meehan.
So apart from the subject matter, what have these books in common? Firstly, they share outrageous titles. Nobody in Fine Gael wants to call themselves a Blueshirt , so Ross s provocative title is startling.
The Collins/Meehan book also seeks to grab attention with an arresting title. It covers a lot of ground, as evidenced by the subtitle: Fine Gael from Collins to Varadkar. To my mind, there was one occasion when the party, under the leadership of WT Cosgrave in 1932. did save the nation. In that election, Fianna Fáil had won the greater number of seats and, having dismissed the oath of allegiance as a meaningless formula, it entered the Dáil and
Season s greetings from nearly 103-year-old nun who was the first Cork Person of the Year Sr. Colette Hickey, meeting then Lady Mayoress Georgina Fitzgerald and Lord Mayor Cllr Tony Fitzgerald in 2018 for her 100th birthday.
SISTER Colette Hickey, the first-ever first winner of the Cork Person of the Year award back in 1993, is sending season s and New Year greetings to all the people of Cork.
The well-known nun and homeless advocate has issued her best wishes to everyone in this difficult time, especially the nominees for Person of the Year this January.
She says she prays every day for Cork people - even though she’s originally from Waterford.