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Lenihan has said that he resents any implication that he is a member of the political establishment. Lenihan first held political office in 1996, when he was asked to stand in the Dublin West by-election caused by the death of his father. Noel Dempsey, who was Fianna Fáil's Director of Elections in the contest, did not expect his party to hold the seat. Lenihan secured 252 more first-preference votes than Joe Higgins of Militant Labour, and was elected on the 11th count. Following his re-election
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sitting in cabinet with him. Two of his sons, Brian Lenihan Jnr and Conor Lenihan, became TDs in the 1990s. Brian Lenihan Jnr served as Minister for Finance and Conor was Minister of State in the government of Taoiseach Brian Cowen. Two phrases associated with Lenihan Snr, "No problem" and "On mature recollection", entered the Irish political lexicon. Born in Dundalk, County Louth, Lenihan was the son of Patrick Lenihan and Anne Scanlon. His father had been active in the Irish Republican Army, which
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to the Minister for Justice and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Lands from 1961 to 1964. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) from 1961 to 1973 and 1977 to 1995. He served as a Senator from 1957 to 1961 and 1973 to 1977. He also served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Oireachtas from 1973 to 1977. He was a member of a family political dynasty; his father, Patrick Lenihan, and sister both followed him into Dáil Éireann; his sister Mary O'Rourke
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previous election. It was the first, and to date only, occasion of a child preceding his parent into the Dáil. Patrick Lenihan was re-elected to the Dáil at the 1969 general election and died suddenly in 1970. His seat was taken at the subsequent by-election by Fine Gael's Patrick Cooney who subsequently went on to serve as a Minister. Two of his children, Brian Lenihan Snr and Mary O'Rourke, served as Irish cabinet ministers. A third, Paddy, served as a member of Roscommon County
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Patrick Lenihan


Council; in the later stages of his career in the 1980s, he left Fianna Fáil to join Neil Blaney's Independent Fianna Fáil. Two of Patrick Lenihan's grandchildren, Brian Lenihan Jnr and Conor Lenihan, served as Minister for Finance and Minister of State respectively in the government of Brian Cowen. Conor Lenihan and Mary O'Rourke lost their seats at the 2011 general election. Brian Lenihan Jnr was re-elected but died in June 2011, ending the Lenihans' fifty years of continuous service in the Oireachtas. Patrick Lenihan was
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Conor Lenihan


for the Irish News. While in London he was also a member of the European Commission's Speakers Panel. In the 1990s he went into broadcast journalism working with the Dublin radio station 98FM. Lenihan also worked as a senior executive with O2, an Irish-owned mobile operator, and subsequently worked as an advisor for the company. Lenihan is the son of former Tánaiste, TD and Minister Brian Lenihan. His grandfather, Patrick Lenihan, also served in the Oireachtas. His aunt, Mary O'Rourke, is a former TD
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Brian Lenihan Snr


The issue of Lenihan's trustworthiness became the central issue of the second half of the presidential campaign. In January 1982, Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald had asked President Patrick Hillery, a former government colleague of Lenihan's, to dissolve the Dáil, a request which Hillery granted. If Hillery had refused a dissolution, Charles Haughey could have formed an alternative government and strengthened his own embattled position as leader of Fianna Fáil. Subsequently, it was reported in books by authors Stephen O'Byrnes and Raymond Smith, and by many political journalists in newspaper
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Labour Party government took office, following the 1973 general election. Lenihan also dramatically lost his Roscommon–Leitrim seat. He once again became a Senator, becoming his party's leader in the upper house. In 1973, he was appointed a member of the second delegation from the Oireachtas to the European Parliament. He moved his political base from rural Roscommon to Dublin West, where he was elected as a TD at the 1977 general election, which saw a landslide victory for Fianna Fáil. Jack Lynch appointed him Minister for Forestry
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Jim Duffy (journalist)


, denied that Lenihan was under any pressure to resign. However, when the minority party in government, the Progressive Democrats, threatened to quit government unless Lenihan resigned or was sacked, and Lenihan refused to resign, the Taoiseach, Charles Haughey, instructed President Hillery to sack him. Lenihan went on to become the first candidate from his party ever to lose an Irish presidential election, with the Labour Party candidate, Mary Robinson, eventually winning the office. Duffy was strongly attacked by the Taoiseach and members of the government under
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American Left


parties. The Socialist Equality Party (SEP) is a political party that formed after a 1995 ideological rupture with Workers World Party over the issue of their support of the Fidel Castro government in Cuba, The SEP are composed of Trotskyists and are affiliated with the World Socialist Web Site. With fewer than one thousand members in 1996, the Socialist Worker's Party (SWP) was the second largest Marxist–Leninist party in the United States. Formed by supporters of Leon Trotsky, they believed that the Soviet Union and other Communist
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Brian Lenihan Snr


Robinson and abandoned the Lenihan campaign in droves. In spite of his troubled campaign, Lenihan won the largest number of first-preference votes. However, most of the votes that initially went to Austin Currie, the third-placed candidate, transferred to Mary Robinson on the second count, in what was widely seen as a pact between Fine Gael and the Labour Party. As a result, Lenihan became the first Fianna Fáil candidate to lose an Irish presidential election. Lenihan remained active in politics right up to his death in
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Patrick Lenihan


Patrick Lenihan (4 September 1902 – 11 March 1970) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Longford–Westmeath constituency from 1965 to 1970. He held the distinction of being the only parent to be elected to the Oireachtas where his child was already a member. Born in Kilfenora, County Clare, he was an Inspector of Taxes in Dundalk before being appointed by Seán Lemass to run the Gentex textiles company in Athlone. At its height it was the major employer in the
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Brian Lenihan Jnr


law at Trinity College Dublin in 1984 and in the same year was called to the Irish Bar. From 1992 to 1995, he was a member of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal and the Garda Síochána Complaints Appeal Board, and in 1997 he became a Senior Counsel. Lenihan was married to Circuit Court Judge Patricia Ryan. They had one son named Tom and one daughter named Claire. In December 2009, he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Lenihan is a member of a famous Irish political dynasty. His father Brian Lenihan Snr
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Mary O'Rourke


on RTÉ's reality series "Celebrity Bainisteoir", as well as other shows such as "Sex & Sensibility". She has guest presented "Tonight with Vincent Browne". In 2012, "Just Mary: My Memoir" was published. It won the 2012 Irish Book Award in the "Listeners' Choice" category. O'Rourke comes from a strong political family, her father Patrick Lenihan served as a TD for Longford–Westmeath from 1965 to 1970. Her brother Brian Lenihan was a senior government Minister and Tánaiste.
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Naresh Balyan


Naresh Balyan () is an Indian politician and a member of the Sixth Legislative Assembly of Delhi in India. He represents the Uttam Nagar constituency of New Delhi and is a member of the Aam Aadmi Party political party. Naresh Balyan was born in Delhi. He attended the Haryana Shakti Senior Secondary School and attained ninth grade degree. Naresh Balyan has been a MLA for one term. He represented the Uttam Nagar constituency and is a member of the Aam Aadmi Party political party. On 21 Sep 2015, Balyan complained to police
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Patrick Hillery


from cabinet. As required by Article 13.1.3 of the Constitution, Hillery did so. Lenihan's campaign never recovered, and he became the first candidate from his party to date to lose a presidential election, having begun the campaign as the apparent certain winner. Instead Labour's Mary Robinson became the first elected President from outside Fianna Fáil, and the first woman to hold the office. The revelations, and the discovery that Hillery had stood up to pressure from former cabinet colleagues, including his close friend Brian Lenihan, back in
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Brian Lenihan Jnr


at the 1997 general election Lenihan became Chairman of the All-Party Oireachtas Committee on the Constitution. He served in this position until 2002, when he was appointed Minister of State for Children. He had previously been thought of as a potential member of the Cabinet before the 2002 general election. Lenihan was often deployed as a representative of government on topical issues or television shows, and was known for giving his own personal opinion on some matters. He was involved in a dispute with the Labour Party over its leader Pat Rabbitte
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Patrick Hillery


the Progressive Democrats indicated that unless Lenihan resigned from cabinet, they would resign from government and support an opposition motion of no confidence, in Dáil Éireann, bringing down the government and causing a general election. Publicly, Haughey insisted that it was entirely a matter for Lenihan, his "friend of thirty years" and that he was putting no pressure on him. In reality, under pressure from the PDs, Haughey gave Lenihan a letter of resignation to sign. When Lenihan refused, Haughey formally advised President Hillery to sack Lenihan
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Brian Lenihan Snr


which, while remaining Tánaiste, he was made Minister for Defence. Lenihan returned to Irish politics with a new lease of life. When he entered the Dáil chamber he received an ovation, an indication of his personal cross-party popularity. It was revealed subsequently that Lenihan's operation was partly paid for through fundraising by Taoiseach Charles Haughey, from businessmen with Fianna Fáil links. In evidence to the Moriarty Tribunal investigating Haughey's finances, it was established that much of the money raised but not ultimately needed for the operation was
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Socialist Equality Party (Australia)


The Socialist Equality Party (SEP) is a Trotskyist political party in Australia. The SEP was established in 2010 as the successor party to the Socialist Labour League, which was founded in 1972 as the Australian section of the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI). According to its 2019 election statement, the party opposes identity politics and the Me Too movement. The party also criticises contemporary trade unions, having adopted the position that "They are no longer workers’ organisations." Inspired by the British Socialist Labour League
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Darragh Lenihan


Darragh Patrick Lenihan (born 16 March 1994) is an Irish professional footballer who plays as a defender for Blackburn Rovers. In the summer of 2011 Lenihan signed for Blackburn Rovers from Belvedere. Two years later, he signed a contract with the club and then again in May 2014. In April 2015, Lenihan made his debut for Rovers against Millwall coming off the bench in the first half to replace Matthew Kilgallon. After making his debut, Lenihan said in his post-match interview that it was a great experience playing at
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Seán Lemass


in the cabinet. He is credited with providing a transition phase between the old guard and a new generation of professional politicians. Younger men such as Brian Lenihan, Charles Haughey, Patrick Hillery and Donogh O'Malley were all given their first cabinet portfolios by Lemass, and ministers who joined under de Valera, such as Jack Lynch, Neil Blaney and Kevin Boland were promoted by the new Taoiseach. Similarly, several members of the old guard retired from politics during the Lemass era. By 1965, Frank Aiken was the only de Valera
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2011 Dublin West by-election


A by-election was held in the Dáil Éireann Dublin West constituency in Ireland on Thursday, 27 October 2011 following the death of the Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála (TD) and former Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan Jnr on 10 June 2011. The 2011 Irish presidential election and two constitutional referendums were held on the same day. Patrick Nulty of the Labour Party was elected after a prolonged count. Thirteen candidates contested the by-election. Four were members of Fingal County Council: David McGuinness of Fianna Fáil, Eithne Loftus of
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George Lenihan


. In 1899 Lenihan visited Rome and Ireland and secured more priests for the diocese. He opened Sacred Heart College, Auckland in 1903 and in 1905 undertook the completion of St Patrick's Cathedral, Auckland. This was accomplished in 1907, the complete building being dedicated in 1908 by Cardinal Moran, Archbishop of Sydney. Lenihan again visited Europe and North America in 1908 when he attended the celebration of the golden jubilee of Pope Pius X and the Eucharistic Congress in London. Bishop Lenihan died on 23 February 1910 in Sydney, Australia
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1990 Irish presidential election


of the Republic. The Labour Party, along with the Workers' Party, nominated Mary Robinson, SC, a former Labour Party member and senator, and liberal campaigner. Robinson was a former Reid Professor of Law in the Trinity College Dublin. She was previously involved in the Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform and the campaign to save Wood Quay. Lenihan entered the race as odds-on favourite; no Fianna Fáil candidate had ever lost a presidential election. However Lenihan was derailed when he confirmed in an on-the-
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's desire for a presidential election in 2004; Lenihan said the party was "turning the presidency into a political football". He defended the government again in February 2005, this time against Sinn Féin who he suggested were "milking the peace process for political gain". He would later suggest his preference for becoming the Opposition if the alternative was to enter government with Sinn Féin. When three Irishmen fled convictions on terrorism charges they had received in Colombia, the Minister described their return as "most unhelpful to the peace process
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Byron Brown


several scandals involving former basketball star Leonard Stokes, including the questionable government support of his failed "One Sunset" restaurant and a perceived undue influence in mitigating Stokes's arrest for possessing a stolen handicapped parking permit, cut away most of his lead. There were no Republican, third-party or independent candidates, so Brown ran unopposed and won the general election. Brown and Erie County Democratic Party chairman Leonard Lenihan were at odds over various political positions after Lenihan played a major role in Brown's election to the office of mayor
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Brian Lenihan Jnr


Fianna Fáil TD, out of 47 outgoing TD's in Dublin constituencies, returned in the Dublin region. He was the Deputy Leader of Fianna Fáil and party spokesperson on Finance until his death. In an April 2011 interview Lenihan claimed the European Central Bank forced Ireland into taking a bailout and rejected claims by a senior ECB figure that the bank warned Ireland in mid-2010 of the dangers it faced. He has also accused members of the ECB executives of briefing against Ireland and of "betrayal". Lenihan criticised some of the 17
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Micheál Martin


government allow the MV "Rachel Corrie" to deliver its cargo of aid to Gaza instead of involving itself in "further bloodshed". In September 2010, doubts about Brian Cowen's abilities and political judgement as Taoiseach and party leader emerged following a disastrous early-morning radio interview on "Morning Ireland". Cowen survived, however, that same month Martin admitted that he and other cabinet members, namedly Brian Lenihan and Dermot Ahern, harboured ambitions to lead the party should a vacancy arise. While some backbench rebel Fianna Fáil
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Brian Lenihan Jnr


, first elected in 1957, was a cabinet minister for over twenty-five years, Tánaiste, MEP, and a candidate for President in the 1990 election. His grandfather was Patrick Lenihan, who followed his son into the Dáil from 1965 until 1970. Lenihan's aunt Mary O'Rourke was first elected as a TD in 1982, served for a time in the Senate, and is also a former cabinet minister. His brother Conor was a TD from 1997 to 2011 and served as a Minister of State. Despite these facts
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Brian Lenihan Snr


election, Fianna Fáil returned to power for a fourth successive term of office. Lenihan had hopes of further promotion within the cabinet, however, his appointment as Minister for Transport and Power was largely seen as a demotion. In 1973, Patrick Hillery was appointed as Ireland's European Commissioner, upon the Irish entry to the European Economic Community. Lenihan then finally secured his much sought-after portfolio, that of Minister for Foreign Affairs. His tenure was short-lived, as the government fell and a new Fine Gael-
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minister) Brian Lenihan Snr's role in pressuring President Patrick Hillery not to allow then-Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald to dissolve the Dáil in 1982. The Progressive Democrats gave Haughey an ultimatum—unless Lenihan was sacked from cabinet, they would pull out of the coalition and support a no-confidence motion in the government. Haughey tried to force Lenihan to resign, and sacked him when he refused. Haughey was replaced in February 1992 by Albert Reynolds, and O'Malley retained his cabinet post. After the collapse of Reynolds' first administration
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dissolve the Dáil resurfaced. Lenihan was accused of calling and attempting to influence the President, who as Head of State is above politics. The Progressive Democrats threatened to pull out of the coalition and support a Fine Gael no-confidence motion unless Haughey forced Lenihan out. Haughey tried to force Lenihan to resign, and sacked him when he refused to do so. Lenihan's dismissal damaged Haughey's standing in the Fianna Fáil organisation. Haughey's grip on political power began to slip in the autumn of 1991. There was a
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Socialist Equality Party (United States)


The Socialist Equality Party (SEP) is a Trotskyist political party in the United States, one of several Socialist Equality parties around the world affiliated with the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI). The ICFI publishes daily news articles, perspectives and commentaries on the World Socialist Web Site and maintains Mehring Books as publishing house. The SEP was formed in 1995 by the Workers League, the US supporters of the ICFI. The Workers League had been founded in 1966 by the American Committee for the Fourth International (ACFI)
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Brian Lenihan (footballer)


Brian Patrick Lenihan (born 8 June 1994) is an Irish former professional footballer who played as a right back and midfielder. Born in Cork, Lenihan began his career with College Corinthians. He moved to Cork City in July 2012, making a total of 27 League of Ireland appearances for them. After receiving interest from a number of English clubs, he signed for Hull City on 31 August 2014. The transfer fee was believed to be £200,000. He signed a one-month loan deal with Blackpool in November 2014
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Conor Lenihan


from 20.5% in 2007 to just 5%. He placed eight in the poll and was eliminated on the fourth count. In October 2018, Lenihan announced his intention to seek the Fianna Fáil nomination for the Dublin constituency in the 2019 European Parliament elections. At the party candidate selection meeting February 2019 Lenihan placed fourth out of four candidates with 108 votes of the 838 ballots cast. Lenihan was involved in some controversy on 18 May 2005, when off-microphone he told opposition TD Joe Higgins of the Socialist Party that he
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Fannie Brown Patrick


Hillcrest Chapter of Delphian Society. She was instrumental in founding a number of Reno institutions. Prominent in politics of the State, Patrick was active for many years in affairs of the Democratic party and she was member of the National Committee woman of Nevada Democratic Party. She was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Trinity Episcopal Church and the Guild Society and other groups. With her husband, Patrick operated the Patrick ranch near the south city limits of Reno; in the 1930s the land was subdivided and added
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David North (socialist)


David North (born 1950) is an American Marxist theoretician. He is the national chairman of the Socialist Equality Party in the United States (SEP), formerly the Workers League. He served as the national secretary of the SEP until the party's congress in 2008. North was the principal political and theoretical leader of the International Committee of the Fourth International during the organization's split with the Workers Revolutionary Party in Britain. North is also the chairman of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site, the voice
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Mary O'Rourke


Senator from 1981 to 1982 for the Cultural and Educational Panel and 2002 to 2007, upon being Nominated by the Taoiseach. Mary Lenihan was born in Athlone, County Westmeath. She was educated at St. Peter's, Athlone; Loreto Bray Convent, County Wicklow; University College Dublin and St Patrick's College, Maynooth. She worked as a secondary school teacher before she began her political career. O'Rourke began in local politics, serving on Athlone Urban District Council between 1974 and 1987 and on Westmeath County Council between 1979 and 1987
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Conor Lenihan


, Senator and Minister, while his brother, Brian Lenihan Jnr was a TD and most notably Minister for Finance during the Irish economic downturn from 2008 to 2011. Lenihan was diagnosed with a benign tumour in 2007. Lenihan was also the editor of "The Nation", the official publication of the Fianna Fáil party. Lenihan was first elected to Dáil Éireann at the 1997 general election. In Bertie Ahern's cabinet reshuffle of 2004, he was appointed as Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs with special responsibility for
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Brian Lenihan Snr


. The "Irish Times", which was aware that Lenihan himself was Duffy's source for the original article claim, published, with Duffy's agreement, a newspaper story confirming that Lenihan had indeed made the controversial phone calls to Áras an Uachtaráin. When Lenihan's campaign manager, Bertie Ahern, named Duffy on radio as someone who had interviewed Lenihan back in May, a political storm erupted in which the journalist was put under siege by the media and Fianna Fáil, leading to his reluctant decision, after consulting with lawyers
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Mary O'Rourke


Another brother Paddy Lenihan was a County Councillor in Roscommon, but resigned from Fianna Fáil in 1983 and became associated with Neil Blaney's Independent Fianna Fáil party. Two of her nephews, Brian Lenihan Jnr and Conor Lenihan, both sons of her brother Brian, served as Ministers. Brian Lenihan Jnr was the Minister for Finance. Conor Lenihan was a Minister of State. O'Rourke was widowed in January 2001, following the death of her husband, Enda. She has two sons. One of them, Aengus O'Rourke (her adopted
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Bertie (TV series)


he resigned as Taoiseach and leader of the Fianna Fáil political party in May 2008. An interview with Tony Blair and contributions from former Cabinet colleagues Charlie McCreevy and Mary O'Rourke were included. His former wife Miriam Ahern and their daughters, Cecelia and Georgina were interviewed. Amongst those declining an interview were Ahern's former partner Celia Larkin. Other Cabinet ministers and junior ministers interviewed included Dermot Ahern, Willie O'Dea, Brian Lenihan, Martin Cullen, Mary Harney, Conor Lenihan and Noel Ahern. Among the other figures interviewed were Des Richardson
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office unopposed. Labour Party leader Dick Spring indicated that Labour would run a candidate for the presidency, even if he had to stand himself. Ultimately, Labour chose former Senator Mary Robinson as its candidate. Lenihan was generally perceived as an unbeatable candidate, though he did receive a late challenge for the nomination from cabinet colleague John Wilson. However, in September 1990, Lenihan was formally nominated as his party's candidate. The main opposition party, Fine Gael chose Austin Currie, a TD and former Northern Ireland cabinet minister,
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Patrick Hillery


Duffy mentioned the information in a newspaper article on the history of the Irish presidency on 28 September 1990 in "The Irish Times". In October 1990, Lenihan changed his story, claiming (even though he had said the opposite for eight years) that he had played "no hand, act or part" in pressurising President Hillery that night. He made these denials in an interview in "The Irish Press" (a pro-Fianna Fáil newspaper) and on an RTÉ 1 political show, "Questions and Answers
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Patrick Hillery


". When it was realised that he had said the opposite in an "on the record" interview in May 1990, his campaign panicked and tried to pressurise Duffy into not revealing the information. Their pressure backfired, particularly when his campaign manager, Bertie Ahern, named Duffy as the person to whom he had given the interview in a radio broadcast, forcing a besieged Duffy to reverse an earlier decision and release the relevant segment of his interview with Lenihan. In the aftermath, the minority party in the coalition government,
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Jim Duffy (journalist)


, in May 1990, formed one source for a major series of articles on the presidency of Ireland, published in "The Irish Times" in September 1990. In the interview Lenihan confirmed what he had previously confirmed to other writers over eight years, that on 27 January 1982 he, along with party leader Charles Haughey and a colleague, Sylvester Barrett, had repeatedly phoned Áras an Uachtaráin, the residence of the President of Ireland, to try to put pressure on the President, Patrick Hillery, to refuse a dissolution of
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Jim Duffy (journalist)


subject of mounting political and media pressure, with his silence being spun by Fianna Fáil press staff as evidence that the rumours that Lenihan had confirmed to him that he had made calls were false. (Lenihan had assured his campaign team that he had said nothing in the interview that could cause problems.) After three days of intense political and media pressure, Duffy released the relevant proportion of the on-the-record tape interview he had done with Lenihan. The release took place in a press conference in a Dublin hotel
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Patrick Gallagher (politician)


Patrick "Paddy" Gallagher (born 1 December 1946) is a former Irish politician. He was a member of Sinn Féin the Workers Party, Workers' Party of Ireland and Democratic Left political parties. He was elected to Dáil Éireann as a Sinn Féin the Workers Party Teachta Dála (TD) for the Waterford constituency at the February 1982 general election. He lost his seat at the November 1982 generak election. He was an elected member of Waterford City Council from the 1970s to 1990s. A journalist Gallagher established his own
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Independent Fianna Fáil


a member of Buncrana Town Council. Previously IFF had also had representation on Roscommon County Council — where Paddy Lenihan, brother of Mary O'Rourke and uncle of Brian Lenihan Jnr, defected from Fianna Fáil — and on Leitrim County Council where Larry McGowan also defected, both doing so in 1981. They both retired in 1999, and neither seat was defended on the party's behalf. Paddy Keaveney (father of Fianna Fáil Senator Cecilia Keaveney) was elected for Independent Fianna Fáil in the by-election in 1976 following the death of
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Literary and Debating Society (NUI Galway)


O’Leary, who had been arrested and held on a naval vessel in Galway bay for some time in the aftermath of the rising, was elected Auditor of the Society in the following year. Members of the Lit & Deb were prominent on both sides of the divide in the civil war – Thomas Derrig, a member of the 1916-1917 committee, lost an eye due to gunshot wounds sustained while escaping from Free State custody, while Patrick Lenihan returned from service with the army of the Free State to become auditor for the
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Brian Lenihan Snr


. He then practised law for a few years before becoming a full-time politician. Lenihan first entered politics in 1954, when he ran as a Fianna Fáil candidate in Longford–Westmeath in that year's general election. Of the four Fianna Fáil candidates, Lenihan was the only one not to be elected. Three years later Lenihan contested the 1957 general election, this time in the Roscommon constituency. Although he received more first preferences than any of the other Fianna Fáil candidates, he lost out on a Dáil seat once
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Brian Lenihan Jnr


Ministers were silent, Lenihan stressed as "unthinkable" the acceptance of illegal payments by former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern in Manchester, a comment highlighted positively by Pat Rabbitte in Dáil Éireann following Ahern's public apology in October 2006. Yet Lenihan denied Brian Cowen was "setting a bad example" following a 2007 "Hot Press" interview in which the future Taoiseach admitted smoking cannabis in his student past. He was involved in the 2007 negotiations between Fianna Fáil and the Green Party about the latter party entering government. In his first term
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Patrick Huot


Patrick Huot (born April 9, 1975) is a Canadian politician in the province of Quebec, who was elected to represent the riding of Vanier in the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2008 provincial election. He is a member of the Quebec Liberal Party. Huot has a bachelor's degree in political sciences and a master's degree in political analysis. He was elected as a city councillor for Duberger district in Quebec City Council, and was also a member of the Youth and Municipality Commission of the "Union des municipalités
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Patrick O'Flynn


Patrick James O'Flynn (born 29 August 1965) is an English journalist and politician who served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the East of England region between 2014 and 2019. He was elected for the UK Independence Party but defected to the Social Democratic Party in November 2018. He read Economics at King's College, Cambridge, graduating in 1987. He subsequently earned a Diploma in Journalism from City University London. He previously worked as Chief Political Commentator and then Political Editor of the "Daily Express".
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Desmond O'Malley


as the Progressive Democrats voted for Fine Gael's leader Alan Dukes, but after Haughey formally resigned he entered into negotiations with the Progressive Democrats about forming a coalition. On 5 July 1989 Haughey and O'Malley agreed a deal for government, and O'Malley was appointed Minister for Industry and Commerce. In 1990 Fianna Fáil's nominee in the presidential election was Brian Lenihan. A few weeks before the election a scandal broke over the accusation that Lenihan had phoned the President, Patrick Hillery in 1982, asking him not to dissolve the Dáil following
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Patrick Lenihan


Midlands. He also was involved for some years in the Hodson Bay Hotel on Lough Ree, and was instrumental in the establishment of the All-Ireland amateur drama festival. He was elected as a Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála (TD) at his first attempt, for the Longford–Westmeath constituency at the 1965 general election. He beat the long-serving Fine Gael TD Seán Mac Eoin in the famous "long count". His son Brian Lenihan had been elected in the neighbouring constituency of Roscommon in 1961, at the
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Dublin West (Dáil constituency)


Following the resignation of Independent TD Patrick Nulty, a by-election was held on 23 May 2014, on the same day as the 2014 European and local elections. Following the death of Fianna Fáil TD Brian Lenihan Jnr, a by-election was held on 27 October 2011, on the same day as the Irish presidential election and two constitutional referendums. Following the death of Fianna Fáil TD Brian Lenihan Snr, a by-election was held on 2 April 1996. The seat was won by the Fianna Fáil candidate Brian
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George Lenihan


theology at the English College at Valladolid, Spain. In 1882 when he was sub-deacon, he was invited to accompany Bishop Edmund Luck to New Zealand and on 27 August 1882 he was ordained a priest, " ... being the first student of the Ramsgate College to be ordained to the secular priesthood". When he arrived in Auckland in 1882, Lenihan was appointed as curate to Monsignor Walter McDonald at St Patrick's Cathedral, Auckland where he remained for more than three years. In 1886, he was appointed pastor
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2011 Scottish Conservative Party leadership election


to the UK Conservative Party. This prompts mixed reactions from senior party figures. 4 Sep – Ruth Davidson formally announces that she will stand in the contest. 5 Sep – Murdo Fraser launches his campaign in Edinburgh. 8 Sep – Ruth Davidson launches her campaign in Edinburgh. 11 Sep – Lord Forsyth, at one point a suggested leadership candidate, declares his backing for Ruth Davidson. 23 Sep – Nominations for leadership close. Margaret Mitchell confirms she will stand in the election. 2 Oct – David Mundell MP declares his backing
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Donal Lenihan


Lynch. Donal attended primary school he attended Saint Patrick’s on Gardiner's Hill and afterwards went to Christian Brothers College, Cork. He captained his school to Munster Junior and Senior Schools titles and was also captained for Irish schools. He was a student at UCC and played for the rugby team while studying there. Lenihan played his first test match for Ireland on 21 November 1981 versus Australia at the age of 22. Famous for his aerial skills in the line-out, the hard-nosed second row was ever present
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Patrick Hillery


presidency, Ireland and Hillery forever. Three candidates had been nominated in the 1990 presidential election: the then Tánaiste, Brian Lenihan from Fianna Fáil (widely viewed as the certain winner), Austin Currie from Fine Gael and Mary Robinson from Labour. In May 1990, in an "on the record" interview with Jim Duffy, a post-graduate student researching the Irish presidency, Lenihan had confirmed that he had been one of those phoning Hillery in January 1982. He confirmed that Haughey too had made phone calls. Jim
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Mamadou Kamara Dékamo


Director-General of SEP Development from 1984 to 1992. He became a member of the Political Bureau of the Congolese Labour Party (PCT) in 1992, and he was elected to the National Assembly as a PCT candidate from the Poto-Poto section of Brazzaville in the 1992 parliamentary election. On 25 December 1992, he was appointed as Minister of Communication, Posts, and Telecommunications, as well as Government Spokesman, in the power-sharing government of Prime Minister Claude Antoine Dacosta, which was to serve until a new
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Jerry White (socialist)


Jerome "Jerry" White (born 1959) is an American politician and journalist, and is the Labor Editor reporting for the World Socialist Web Site. He is a member of the Socialist Equality Party of the United States, and was a member of its predecessor the Workers League, joining the movement in 1979. White ran as the SEP candidate for United States President in 1996 and 2008, and again in 2012 with running mate Phyllis Scherrer. White was again the SEP presidential nominee in the 2016 election. Jarome White was
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Conor Lenihan


TD because May is a constituent of his". In the wake of this controversy, May asked Lenihan not to launch the book "because I am so embarrassed that the Minister for Science has been so insulted" and "eviscerated" on a political website. While appearing in March 2011 on "Tonight with Vincent Browne" on television, presenter Vincent Browne asked if there was “a happy coincidence” between matters of national importance and what Lenihan was personally interested in, leading to what "The Irish Times" described as
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Brian Lenihan Jnr


The post was available due to the loss of previous Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform Michael McDowell in the election. Lenihan immediately promised to place the victim of a crime first and stated that a referendum on children's rights would take place. His first function as Minister for Justice was to attend the graduation of newly trained members of the Garda Síochána Reserve on 16 June 2007. As Minister for Justice Lenihan was involved in several high-profile deportation cases. Considered a "close ally" of Brian Cowen, Lenihan
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Mary Robinson


who needs friends?" Flynn's attack was a fatal blow to Lenihan's campaign, causing many female supporters of Lenihan to vote for Robinson in a gesture of support. Lenihan's support evaporated, and Haughey concluded that the election was as good as lost. Haughey distanced himself from Lenihan, as he did not want any share in the blame. This had unintended consequences, as disquiet with the Fianna Fáil organisation concerning Haughey's leadership increased dramatically. An episode of an RTÉ current affairs television programme featured Fianna Fáil members in
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Brian Lenihan Jnr


". Lenihan spoke at the Fianna Fáil Ardfheis in Killarney on 22 October 2005, and at the Ardfheis in Citywest on 24 March 2007. Appearing on "The Week in Politics" in the wake of unfounded allegations published by a number of Sunday newspapers on Liam Lawlor's death in October 2005, Lenihan said Lawlor's legacy would be the setting up of a Press Council to deal with such matters as they arose in future and was also among the politicians who paid tribute to Lawlor in Dáil Éireann. When other Fianna Fáil
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Mary Robinson


decades in politics, Lenihan had become very popular, and was widely seen as humorous and intelligent. Like Robinson he had himself delivered liberal policy reform (abolished censorship in the 1960s, for example). When the campaign began, Lenihan was seen as a near certainty to win the presidency. The only question asked was whether Robinson would beat Currie and come second. However, as the campaign proceeded, it became apparent that Lenihan's victory was by no means a foregone conclusion, and that Robinson was a serious contender.
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Brian Lenihan Snr


Brian Patrick Lenihan (17 November 1930 – 1 November 1995) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as Tánaiste from 1987 to 1990, Minister for Defence from 1989 to 1990, Minister for Agriculture from March 1982 to December 1982, Minister for Fisheries from 1977 to 1979, Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1987 to 1989, 1979 to 1981 and January 1973 to March 1973, Minister for Transport and Power from 1969 to 1973, Minister for Education from 1968 to 1969, Minister for Justice from 1964 to 1969, Parliamentary Secretary
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1990 Irish presidential election


record interview with freelance journalist and academic researcher Jim Duffy that he had been involved in controversial attempts to pressurise President Patrick Hillery not to dissolve the Dáil in 1982. After the contrast between his public denials during the campaign and his eventual confirmation of his role during his earlier interview recorded in May the Progressive Democrats, then in coalition with Fianna Fáil, threatened to join an opposition motion of no confidence unless Lenihan was dismissed from the government or an inquiry into the 1982 events was set up. Taoiseach Charles Haughey privately asked Lenihan to
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Brian Lenihan Jnr


Justice, but was promoted to the post of Minister for Finance one year later. After the 2007 general election Fianna Fáil were returned to power as part of a coalition with the Progressive Democrats, the Green Party and some Independents. Lenihan was the only Fianna Fáil TD to be promoted to the cabinet, as Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, by Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, a post which Lenihan's father had held from 1964 to 1968. They are the only father-son pair to have held that office.
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Questions and Answers (TV programme)


the record' conversation and so could not reveal it (though one did hint it in an unsigned editorial in the "Irish Independent" during the crisis following the programme). However following the programme, Duffy, in a backlash to pressure from Lenihan's Fianna Fáil not to reveal the information, did reveal that Lenihan's account on the programme conflicted with his pre-campaign version. The minor party in Charles Haughey's government, the Progressive Democrats, threatened to quit government and cause a general election unless either Lenihan was
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Solidarity – The Union for British Workers


Simone Clarke and Mark Walker (at that time BNP members), David Durant and David Kerr (National Liberal Party members). General Secretary Patrick Harrington is a Director of the Third Way (UK) think tank, and not currently a member of any political party. He is, however, a veteran of far-right politics in the UK, who formerly served on the leadership of the National Front. He voted to disband the organisation in 1989 and ceased membership. The Third Way think tank has significant policy differences
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Kit Ahern


Lenihan for the post of Leas-Chathaoirleach of the 13th Seanad. The post had traditionally been held by a member of an opposition party, but the incoming National Coalition government of Fine Gael and the Labour Party decided that it wanted a Labour deputy to Fine Gael Cathaoirleach James Dooge. Labour's Evelyn Owens was elected as Leas-Chathaoirleach, but Ahern won the support not just of her Fianna Fáil colleagues but also of Mary Robinson then an independent senator, and later President of Ireland. She was also a member of Kerry
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Brian Lenihan Snr


to be its candidate. Lenihan had a serious flaw. Though regarded by those who knew him personally as an intellectual heavyweight, he presented himself as a lightweight, semi-comic politician—the "clown prince" of Irish politics, in the words of long-time friend and journalist John Healy. He was once described by Fine Gael politician John Kelly as "like a lighthouse in the Bog of Allen, brilliant but useless". During leadership campaigns against Charles Haughey in the 1980s, Lenihan had regularly appeared on television
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Brian Lenihan Snr


to insist that Fianna Fáil was not divided, even as Ministers were resigning and—in an incident involving Jim Gibbons—scuffles broke out in the environs of Leinster House. Lenihan's image was dealt a further blow by a disastrous "Late Late Show" special devoted to him, which was broadcast only weeks before the presidential campaign started. Colleagues and friends projected an image of him as a political "cute hoor"—someone who would do anything and pull any stunt that he had to. As a result, Lenihan was mistrusted.
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Conor Lenihan


planned high-tech innovation centre on the edge of Moscow, where he worked on international partnership development. Lenihan was born in Dublin in 1963. He lived in Athlone until he was 11 years of age. He was educated at Belvedere College, University College Dublin (where he was chair of the Kevin Barry Cumann of Ógra Fianna Fáil), Dublin City University and the INSEAD. Lenihan began his working life as a newspaper journalist working in the 1980s in the House of Commons in London, where he was a political correspondent
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Instant-runoff voting


a different result from first-past-the-post voting. The three candidates were Brian Lenihan of the traditionally dominant Fianna Fáil party, Austin Currie of Fine Gael, and Mary Robinson, nominated by the Labour Party and the Workers' Party. After the first round, Lenihan had the largest share of the first-choice rankings (and hence would have won a first-past-the-post vote), but no candidate attained the necessary majority. Currie was eliminated and his votes reassigned to the next choice
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Brian Lenihan Snr


redirected by Haughey into his own personal bank account. Haughey was revealed in the Tribunal to have been engaged in numerous acts of corruption, to finance a lifestyle considerably in excess of his earnings as a politician. In January 1990, leaks to the media suggested that Lenihan was considering seeking the Fianna Fáil nomination in the 1990 Irish presidential election, which was due in November 1990. Speculation abounded that this was part of a plan to discourage other parties from running candidates in the belief that Lenihan would prove unbeatable and so get the
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Marshalltown, Iowa


decided upon by both parties was to sell Lenihan to the public school system and to make the school a 7, 8, 9 junior high. The transaction was completed and Lenihan Junior High became a reality in the fall of 1970. The Catholic school name, mascot and school colors were all retained in the new public junior high school. The need for additional space at Lenihan Junior High resulted in the construction of six rooms on the east side of the building in 1975. The addition consisted of three regular classrooms, an
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Patrick Diamond


Patrick Diamond worked as a policy advisor under the Labour Party government of the United Kingdom in a role covering policy and strategy. He is Senior Lecturer in Public Policy at Queen Mary University of London, Chair of the think-tank Policy Network, Gwilym Gibbon Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, and a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Politics at the University of Oxford. Patrick is a board member of the Prisoners' Education Trust (PET), the Dartington Service Design Lab, and the Campaign for Social Science. Patrick
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B. W. Huebsch


published included: Irwin Edman, Rumer Godden, William White, Patrick White. Huebsch was a member of the Henry Ford Peace Plan Commission (1915–1916). He was a signatory member of the Committee of Forty-Eight in 1919. (This was an American liberal political association to create a new political party for social reform in opposition to the increasingly conservatism in both the Republican and Democratic parties. The name reflect the 48 states of the time, as well as the desire for a broad, national movement of moderate progressives
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Brian Lenihan Snr


1995. Bitter at what he saw as his betrayal by the Progressive Democrats, he campaigned for Fianna Fáil to go into coalition with the Labour Party instead, something which happened after the 1992 general election. He also occasionally reviewed books, which showed an intellect that he had suppressed in his public persona as a politician. Brian Lenihan's health again deteriorated and he died in 1995, at the age of 64, sixteen days short of his 65th birthday. In the resulting by-election, his son Brian Lenihan Jnr was
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2011 Fianna Fáil leadership election


. Jimmy Devins rejoined the parliamentary party on 25 January, a day before the leadership election, bringing the total number of eligible voters to 72. RTÉ News reported that Martin had received 33 first preference votes, compared to Ó Cuív's 15, Lenihan's 14 and Hanafin's 10; it added that the election ended on the third count, with Ó Cuív the runner-up. When Hanafin had been eliminated and her votes redistributed, Ó Cuív and Lenihan were equal on 18 votes each; Lenihan was then eliminated,
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RTÉ News: Six One


the presidential residence to put pressure on the President. The appearance on "Six One" effectively ended Lenihan's presidential campaign. The programme is also considered to have ended the domestic political career of then Foreign Minister Gerry Collins. On 7 November 1991, in response to a leadership struggle in his party, an overly emotional, tearful Collins pleaded with the man challenging for the leadership, Albert Reynolds, not to "wreck our party right down the centre" and "burst up government". Collins's own chances of leadership
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Pirate Party Switzerland


The Pirate Party Switzerland (, , , ) is a political party in Switzerland, based on the model of the Swedish Pirate Party. The party was founded on 12 July 2009, in Zürich, by about 150 people. By the end of February 2012, the PPS had around about 1,800 members. The first election success happened on 7 March 2010, when Marc Wäckerlin was elected to the Winterthur city council. Patrick Mächler of the PPS was head member of Pirate Parties International (PPI) from July 2009 to February 2010
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Ontario Alliance


The Ontario Alliance is a minor social conservative and right-wing populist political party in the Canadian province of Ontario. Founded in November 2017 by Jay Tysick, the party will be led during the 2018 Ontario election by William Cook. The Ontario Alliance was founded in 2017 by members of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party disaffected with then-leader Patrick Brown. Joined by members of the single-issue Stop the New Sex-Ed Agenda party, the disbanded New Reform Party of Ontario, and social conservative activists with the federal Conservative
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History of Fine Gael


party gained just four seats in the following general election. In 1990, its candidate in the Irish presidential election, Austin Currie, was pushed into a humiliating third place, behind the winner, Labour's Mary Robinson and Fianna Fáil's Brian Lenihan. This led to John Bruton replacing Alan Dukes as the party's leader. In 1989, political history was made when Fianna Fáil abandoned one of its "core principles", its opposition to coalition. Having failed in 1987 and 1989 to win outright majorities, Fianna Fáil entered
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Mary Robinson


Barry, who had previously been willing to run but had run out of patience and was no longer interested. The party ultimately nominated the former civil rights campaigner Austin Currie, a respected new TD and former Minister in Brian Faulkner's power-sharing executive in Northern Ireland from 1973 to 1974. Currie had little experience in the politics of the Republic and was widely seen as the party's last choice, nominated only when no-one else was available. Fianna Fáil chose Tánaiste and Minister for Defence Brian Lenihan. In three
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Fianna Fáil


Kitt and Séamus Brennan in Dublin South that were largely separate from the official party structure. Since the 2007 election, the party's structure has significantly weakened. This was in part exacerbated by significant infighting between candidates in the run-up to the 2011 general election. "The Irish Times" estimated that half of its 3,000 "cumainn" were effectively moribund. This fraction rose in Dublin with the exception of Dublin West, the former seat of both Brian Lenihan Snr and Brian Lenihan Jnr. Fianna Fáil is seen as a
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Alan Dukes


Fianna Fáil's Brian Lenihan Snr was favourite to win. However, after several controversies arose, relating to the brief Fianna Fáil administration of 1982, and Lenihan's dismissal as Minister for Defence midway through the campaign, the Labour Party's Mary Robinson emerged victorious. To many in Fine Gael, the humiliation of finishing third was too much to bear and a campaign was launched against Dukes' leadership. He was subsequently replaced as party leader by John Bruton. Bruton brought him back to the front bench in September 1992, shortly
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Patrick Levaye


Patrick Levaye (born July 26, 1952 in Orléans, in Loiret) is a writer and a French Senior official. Author of a book on Catholicism, Patrick Levaye occupied several functions with high responsibilities with the French Minister of the Interior, with the Minister of Defence like to the Secretariat of State to the War Veterans. He was member of the Rally for the Republic (RPR), a French right-wing political party, during about fifteen years, as from 1979. He is also knight of the Sovereign Military
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Northern Ireland Unionist Party


The Northern Ireland Unionist Party (NIUP) was a small political party in Northern Ireland. It was formed in January 1999 as a splinter party from the UK Unionist Party (UKUP). This split was caused by disagreement between the five UKUP members of the Northern Ireland Assembly. Four of the members disagreed with UKUP leader Robert McCartney's policy of resigning from the Assembly should Sinn Féin become part of the power-sharing executive. Cedric Wilson, Patrick Roche, Norman Boyd and Roger Hutchinson disagreed with McCartney, wanting to remain
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Scottish Democratic Alliance


The Scottish Democratic Alliance (SDA) is a political organisation formed in 2009 as the successor to the Scottish Enterprise Party (SEP). It supports Scottish independence and withdrawal from the European Union. Although it evolved from a political party, the SDA spent some time operating as a think tank on current affairs in Scotland. It stood its first candidate for election in the 2013 Aberdeen Donside by-election, coming last with 35 votes (0.1%). The SDA favours a low-tax Scotland independent of both the EU
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Patrick McNicholas


Patrick John (Paddy) McNicholas (15 April 1919 – 1990) was an Irish-born politician and political figure in Newfoundland. He represented St. John's Centre in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly from 1979 to 1989 as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Newfoundland. Patrick McNicholas was born in Galway, in the West of Ireland on 15 April 1919. He studied medicine in London and at University College Dublin in Dublin, Ireland. He qualified as a physician in Dublin in 1941 at the age of 21
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Brian Lenihan Jnr


2011 issue of "Vanity Fair" described Lenihan as "tricky," for allegedly manipulating his meetings with the members of the Dáil so that when they emerge, they are the ones who must announce the bad news about the latest budget cuts and tax hikes to the media (and thus bear the brunt of the anger and blame for the austerity measures). Lenihan's role in post-collapse Ireland is likened in one particularly lurid passage as "normalising a freak show" and attempting to assure the Irish that they did
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Joe Higgins


left the party and formed Militant Labour, which became the Socialist Party in 1996. Higgins spent over half his salary on the Socialist Party and causes he supported. He was elected to Dublin County Council in 1991 for the Mulhuddart electoral area, and was until 2003 a member of Fingal County Council. In 1996, he campaigned against local authority water and refuse charges and contested the Dublin West by-election, losing narrowly to Brian Lenihan Jnr. Higgins was first elected to Dáil Éireann at the 1997 general election, and re
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Patrick Cooney


and between 1981 and 1989. He was a Senator for the Labour Panel from 1977 to 1981. Cooney was born in 1931 and was educated at Castleknock College and University College Dublin. He first stood as a candidate for Dáil Éireann in the Longford–Westmeath constituency at the 1961 general election, but failed to win a seat, and he was defeated again in 1965 and 1969. However, after the death of the Fianna Fáil TD Patrick Lenihan, Cooney was elected to the 19th Dáil in the Longford–Westmeath by-
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Feargal O'Rourke


son of former Irish Minister (various portfolios) Mary O'Rourke, nephew of former Irish Tánaiste Brian Lenihan Snr, and cousin of former Irish Finance Minister Brian Lenihan Jnr, and former Irish Minister of State Conor Lenihan. He chaired the college branch of Fianna Fáil at UCD and joined the national executive on graduation; however, there is no record of him still being a member. O'Rourke is labeled the "great architect" of the "Double Irish" base erosion and profit shifting ("BEPS") tool, as used
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