Go to the Content Thursday, 9 February 2012
Your search for "Charles Haughey" produced 12 items.
| 1. Comeback commissioner | March 11, 2010 |
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Ireland's first female European commissioner trailblazes again. Those unfamiliar with Irish politics watching the European Parliament hearings for nominee commissioners... |
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| 2. The making of Ireland: more luck than management? | March 19, 2008 |
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Bookshops in Ireland tend to carry a disproportionately large ‘Irish Interest' section: rows of self-approving, sentimental offerings, which will be brought home and,... | |
| 3. Haughey's funeral more interesting than summit | June 22, 2006 |
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Last week's European Council was not exactly thrilling stuff and some of those attending might have been envious of Ireland's Prime Minister Bertie Ahern, who was spared the... | |
| 4. The Irish Rebel | October 7, 2004 |
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THE most surprising aspect of Charlie McCreevy's career is not that he has left the Irish government to become his country's next European commissioner but that he ever made... | |
| 5. A week of Silvio bashing and French-tongue lashing | July 10, 2003 |
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“WON'T these unseemly Nazi comparisons ever end?” asked columnist Rolf Kleine in top-selling German newspaper Bild. ‘No' would seem to be the short answer, if the last... | |
| 6. Euro 2000 fever grips the Union | June 22, 2000 |
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Euro 2000 fever is everywhere - and even the EU hasn't been able to escape from it. Last week's get-together of Union foreign ministers and other high-level dignitaries to... | |
| 7. Leader well-suited to the job | June 19, 1997 |
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THREE years ago, the style police descended on Bertie Ahern. Out went his trade-mark anorak, removed by surgery according to one rumour, and in came a fleet of sharply... | |
| 8. Ireland chooses between Europhiles | June 5, 1997 |
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SO FAR, it has all beenrather dull. No eye-catching advertisements, no weighty debates – just head-and-shoulder posters and some noisy bickering. Ireland's election... | |
| 9. Political ‘fixer' | November 21, 1996 |
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“FLYNN is just Flynn.” Both fans and critics would be hard-pressed to take issue with this tribute from one experienced observer of the Social Affairs and Health... | |
| 10. What is good enough for EU leaders will do for hacks too | July 20, 1996 |
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BY the time you read this, I shall probably be the lucky owner of an Italian beer mug with “I § summits” written on it in 11 working languages or possibly a matching pen... | |
| 11. A summit of two halves | June 27, 1996 |
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It was the beef and soccer summit, a game of two halves in which the only thing that counted were the balls in the back of the net. It came as no surprise that UK Prime... | |
| 12. Ireland's IGC fixer | June 27, 1996 |
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AS THE most senior official in Ireland's department of foreign affairs, Noel Dorr played a key behind-the-scenes role in the final stages of the negotiations on the... | |
