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Updated at 2.06pm
FORMER FIANNA FÁIL senator Des Hanafin has died, aged 86.
Hanafin, from Thurles in Co Tipperary, was first elected to the Seanad in 1965 after previously serving as a county councillor, and retained his seat until 1993.
He successfully ran again in 1997.
Hanafin was a chairman of the Pro-Life Campaign and launched an unsuccessful legal challenge against the results of the divorce referendum. Most recently he said that people who intended to vote against the same-sex marriage referendum had been treated unfairly.
Both his children also served as Fianna Fáil politicians – former minister Mary Hanafin and former senator John Hanafin.
In a statement, Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin expressed his sadness at Hanafin’s death:
His dedication to public service was passed onto both his children: John and Mary, who both went into public life serving as a Senator and as a Government Minister respectively. I know that seeing both his children achieve high office was a source of great pride to him.
“I want to express my deepest sympathies to Des’ loving wife, Mona and to his children, at this sad time.
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The robbing lying cheatin ignorant rightwing b*****ds in goverment should check their birth certs and passports and try to remember where they came from and try supporting the people, they are a disgrace to our flag
18 billion i would say that is an act of treason.Traitors run our country.
All I can say is ‘Well done TD Eamonn Maloney and Senator John Crown” (News Article #3. Hope the rest will not have a night’s sleep with their ‘guilty consciences’ troubling them!
a politician doesn’t have a conscience – he/she may start off with a conscience and best of intentions but the system soon irons that out of them and inculcates the ” because I’m worth it” and “because I can” attitudes. And there is sweet damn all we can do about that, and they know it.
ah leave it out!!!!!!
does paying billions of our tax to unsecured debt not bother u @Ronan?? you must be in a aprt of the country where everything is just rosey
@Philip when you’re popping valium like tic tacs everything is rosey
it just goes to show the neck of the ba****ds to discuss cutting children’s allowance on the day another bunch of bondholders got another cheque written by the government and underwritten by us!
yeah that will solve every thing
won’t it :(
First communion ???
what kind of f****** c**** still go to mass after the church covered up sex abuse
tell me that
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