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Conference tallis::celt

Title:Celt Notefile
Moderator:TALLIS::DARCY
Created:Wed Feb 19 1986
Last Modified:Tue Jun 03 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1632
Total number of notes:20523

1433.0. "Albert No More " by AYOV25::FSPAIN (I'm the King of Wishful Thinking) Thu Nov 17 1994 07:36

    ALbert Reynolds has resigned !
    
    He says he is doing it for the sake of the `peace process' and this
    comes as a result of the appointment of the Attorney General to the
    President of the High Court without the approval of his coalition
    partners . They (Dick Spring et al) have all resigned office too . 
    
    Fianna Fail are now scrambling for a new leader who can hopefully unite
    the coalition again and avoid a general election .
    
    I'll post more as I hear it .
    
    F.
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1433.1FUTURS::GIDDINGS_DTechnoburnoutThu Nov 17 1994 09:165
    I wonder if this is the end of the story. Today's (UK) papers report
    rumours that the failure to extradite the convicted priest was a result
    of intervention by a senior Church figure.
    
    Dave 
1433.2LUNER::IRNBRU::HOWARDJune18-94, the Italian JobThu Nov 17 1994 09:378
    if the rumours about church intervention in this case are true then it
    will be music to the ears of the unionist politicos. It strengthens
    their case about the religious make-up of the South. It saddens me to
    see that the church could still be so strong in modern,
    outward-looking, pluralistic Ireland.
    
    I would imagine that Bertie Ahern would be the strong favourite to
    succeed Albert. It's about time a Dub was in charge, anyway.... 8-]
1433.3Bertie looks favourite now...XSTACY::JDUGGANThu Nov 17 1994 09:596
    	From what I heard on the radio today it is now acknowledged
    	that the rumour about Church intervention was false. The
    	political correspondant (Geraldine Kennedy) went on to say
    	that she thought the rumour was generated by government TD's
    	to cause confusion and buy the Taoiseach some time to negotiate
    	a deal with Dick Spring.