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MARTIN O’DONOGHUE, one of six TDs appointed as a minister on their first day in the Dáil, has died aged 85.
O’Donoghue was elected to the Dáil in 1977 as a TD for Dun Laoghaire. He had previously acted as an economic adviser to Taoiseach Jack Lynch, as well as the author of the manifesto which saw Fianna Fáil gain a 20-seat majority in the Dáil.
He would serve as Economic Planning and Development Minister from 1977 to 1979, when Charles Haughey became Taoiseach and abolished the position.
He would return to cabinet as Education Minister in 1982.
However, he would refuse to back Haughey in a leadership challenge that year and resigned from government. He would lose his seat in November 1982, the fourth general election he had faced in five years.
He entered the Seanad in 1983, where he sat until 1987. He returned to academia, where he was a professor of economics in Trinity College Dublin until his retirement in 1995 and a director of the Central Bank from 1998 to 2008.
O’Donoghue held a PHD in economics from Trinity, where he had attended as a mature student.
Fianna Fáil leader Micheal Martin expressed his sympathy at O’Donoghue’s death.
“I knew Martin and he was a true gentleman. He was a committed public representative who had a long and distinguished career in national politics.
“On my own personal behalf and on behalf of the Fianna Fáil organisation I want to extend my deepest condolences to Martin’s wife Evelyn, children Audrey, Raphael and Tressan and brother Tom.
“Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam.”
Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald added her condolences, calling O’Donoghue a “dedicated public servant”.
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There is an adjoining report that Harris states that ‘you can’t pitch a tent anywhere you want’.
I have a question: when these tents are distributed, are those they are given to told where they can be pitched?
I have another: is there anywhere where they can be pitched that is acceptable to the government?
And who is paying for these tents anyway?
The government, via ‘charities’, on behalf of the taxpayer?
The government, which then destroys those tents within hours of distributing them?
@ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere: they are pitched up in Milltown now making camp.
@Sean Money: @Sean Money: Do you know if there is anywhere these can be pitched that is acceptable to the authorities?
If not, then why are these being distributed?
Are our government departments really *that* disfunctional?
@ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere: exactly they are in cahoots with the tent makers, millions spent on tents now
See this ffg governments will never and I mean never stop pollution of everything for profit ,
@Robert Halvey: Bet they sell the fish too!!
Slurry, I suppose. Farmers, I suppose.
The reason it was only reported yesterday is because nobody works the weekend
I don’t see pike on the list. Probably being killed off by the angling clubs. They kill pike all over Ireland seemingly with the blessing of the IFI. Taking out the predators leaves weak and sick fish to spawn. In turn making the fish sizes smaller in the rivers. You don’t take a predator out of a habitat
@Michael o Dwyer: it’s not the clubs killing them off, it’s the international fishing folk who clean out the rivers and lakes of every fish they get their hands on, no matter the size . They are a plague
@Michael o Dwyer: It’s more likely that it’s just a narrower river that doesnt contain pike. Of which there are many around the country
Pharmaceutical waste !
@sakk sa: irish water chemical leak at the water plant, either chlorine or fluoride
Hopefully the carcasses can be salvaged for food or even pet animal feed.
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